On Saturday morning at approximately 8:30 a.m., police officers in Paris observed a white van with a Bulgarian license plate driving slowly near the Eiffel Tower. The van eventually parked on Quai Jacques Chirac, and three men emerged to unload five coffins. These coffins were covered in French flags and labeled as “French soldiers of Ukraine.”
Upon arriving at the scene, the police immediately arrested the van’s driver, a 38-year-old Bulgarian man who claimed he had been paid 40 euros to transport the others and the cargo. He had arrived in France from Bulgaria the day before and had only met the other two individuals recently.
An investigation by the mine clearance service revealed that the coffins actually contained bags of plaster, not bodies. The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation into premeditated violence, and the driver was taken into custody. The act of placing the coffins with the inscription was deemed a form of psychological violence.
The trio appeared before a judge on Monday, who decided not to detain them at that time. Ultimately, no charges were filed, and the men were released, classified as assisted witnesses under French law. Later in the day, two additional suspects, a 25-year-old German and a 17-year-old Ukrainian, were apprehended at the Bercy bus station as they attempted to board a bus to Berlin.
French media suggested that the trio may have been acting on behalf of
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