2 French scientists admitted to performing an attack on the Russian consulate in Marseille utilizing improvised explosive devices, the local newspaper La Provence reported early Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.French police arrested the males simply hours after three plastic soda bottles two of which took off were tossed into the consulates gardens on Monday, the third anniversary of Russias intrusion of Ukraine.
No injuries were reported.Authorities later determined the suspects at a pro-Ukraine protest in a neighborhood north of the consulate.
According to La Provence, the guys, described as an engineer and a chemist in their 50s and 40s, work for the Paris-based French National Center for Scientific Research.The researchers not only acknowledged the facts, describing that they acted in support of the Ukrainian cause, however also detailed their method operandi, La Provence composed.
The report added that they utilized their clinical knowledge to create a detonating mix of nitrogen and other chemicals.Under the French penal code, the 2 guys confront 10 years in jail if founded guilty of damaging residential or commercial property with an explosive compound.