French and German citizens arrested at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

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Citizens of France and Germany were detained at the Baikonur Cosmodrome as they tried to approach a Soviet launch vehicle. The young men, born in 1998 and 2003, were arrested by Russian police.

The men were sentenced to short prison terms.

Writes UNN with a link to AFP.

According to the Kazakh authorities, a German and a Frenchman were detained at the Baikonur Cosmodrome (leased by Russia from the Republic of Kazakhstan).

It is indicated that Russian police “arrested a Frenchman born in 2003 and a German born in 1998 on Baikonur on October 29,” a representative of the prosecutor's office in the Kyzylorda region of central Kazakhstan told AFP on Friday.

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According to the official version, the men entered the territory of the Russian cosmodrome and headed for a Soviet-era launch vehicle. They were subsequently detained. Reportedly, both were imprisoned for a short time, while the case is under investigation.

For reference

Thanks to its numerous Soviet-era space legacies, the Baikonur Cosmodrome has a legendary reputation among space enthusiasts and lovers of hard-to-reach and “forbidden” places.

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