French and German citizens arrested at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
Kyiv • UNN
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.
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