The two opponents, who are in police custody for breaking and entering, have released two videos inside the luxurious mansion
“Eight rooms and three full bathrooms, a villa that can comfortably accommodate more than twenty people fleeing the war.” This is how activist Pierre Haffner describes Villa Altamira on his Facebook page, the luxurious home in Biarritz owned by oligarch Kirill Shamalov, 39, the ex-husband of one of Vladimir Putin’s daughters and a man very close to the Kremlin. Haffener and the Russian opponent Sergei Saveliev have released two videos last night and this morning in which they show the interior of the mansion, with spectacular views of the sea, and demand that it be confiscated to accommodate refugees. Saveliev is believed to have spent the night there. The two activists are in police custody, according to the daily ‘Sud-Ouest’.
The same medium explains that Pierre Haffner is a resident of the Basque-French coast and known for his opposition to the Russian regime. In the video, entitled ‘The rats give themselves away’, Haffner takes a ‘tour’ of the house, located on avenue Général-Mac-Croskey and shows its main living room, with a mini-bar and a library, the terrace with a checkerboard floor or the spiral staircase with Carrara marble, as well as a bathroom with a free-standing bathtub and shower, among other rooms.
The second video released by YouTube is starring Sergei Saveliev, who also shows the mansion. This Belarusian activist has applied for asylum in France, where he arrived in October 2021, reports ‘Sud-Ouest’. Saveliev spent eight years in Russian prisons and is known for exposing him to the Russian regime.
The French newspaper collects the words of Vladimir Osechkin, president of the New Dissidents Foundation association, which fights “against corruption in Russia” and supports dissent. He has publicized the action of the opponents. “Sergei has decided to participate in this humanitarian action: to use the villas of the oligarchs to host Ukrainian refugees. He has gone to Shamalov’s house not with the intention of stealing and causing material damage, but to prepare the village to receive people fleeing from the war». Apparently, Saveliev has spent the night in Villa Altamira and was accompanied by some refugees.
This morning the Bayonne prosecutor, Jeôme Bourrier, confirmed the arrest of two men, including Pierre Haffner. The second would be Sergei Saveliev. The two are in police custody and are being investigated for a crime of trespassing. A few days before they entered the villa and recorded the videos, the locks had been changed.
Not far from Villa Altamira, the mansion of Putin’s ex-wife was painted a few days ago against the Russian president and in favor of Ukraine. ‘Putin suka!’ (a vulgar insult in Russian), ‘Putin’s mafia’ or ‘Slava Ukraíne’ (Glory to Ukraine) are the phrases that can be read on the fences that surround the construction, an ‘art deco’ style villa built in 1930 .
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