{"id":536331,"date":"2025-10-29T22:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/536331\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:35:12","slug":"court-hears-suspected-russian-proxies-traveled-to-germany-switzerland-after-paris-raid-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/536331\/","title":{"rendered":"Court hears suspected Russian proxies traveled to Germany, Switzerland after Paris raid \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to information provided by the Bulgarian authorities, also cited in court, Angelov and a third suspect, Kiril Milushev, 28, traveled to Germany shortly after the Paris operation. The French prosecutor noted that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/muenchen\/muenchen-waldfriedhof-bandera-grab-ukrainischer-nationalismus-polizei-1.7296210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Munich grave of Stepan Bandera<\/a>, a nationalist Ukrainian politician active in the 1930s and 1940s, had been tagged around the same time. Citing intelligence shared by a foreign country, he asked whether the Paris raid suspects had been involved.<\/p>\n<p>Milushev dismissed the theory as \u201cabsurd.\u201d Dressed in a white shirt and sporting a light beard, he admitted to having visited Germany with Angelov but said they had gone there to buy a second-hand car.<\/p>\n<p>Milushev also admitted to traveling to Switzerland with Ivanov, who didn&#8217;t deny the trip. The latter didn\u2019t visit Paris but paid for hotel rooms for the three others and for their flights back to Sofia after the Holocaust Museum was defaced.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss trip came ahead of a high-level <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eda.admin.ch\/eda\/fr\/dfae\/dfae\/aktuell\/dossiers\/konferenz-zum-frieden-ukraine.html#:~:text=Les%2015%20et%2016%20juin,B%C3%BCrgenstock%20(Canton%20de%20Nidwald).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine summit<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were meant to put [up] stickers [for peace] but we didn\u2019t do it,\u201d Milushev said.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanov acknowledged paying for the Paris trip of the other three suspects, but said he had done so as a favor to Angelov, who later paid him back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to information provided by the Bulgarian authorities, also cited in court, Angelov and a third suspect, Kiril&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[36,1824,2845,332,2600,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-536331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-france","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-misinformation","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-switzerland","13":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115459845280026061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}