French intelligence links blood-red handprint vandalism on Paris Holocaust memorial in 2022 to Russian hybrid disinformation campaign.

In 2022, a Holocaust memorial in Paris was defaced with blood-red handprints, an act now linked by French intelligence to a Russian hybrid disinformation campaign, as reported on October 30, 2023, by Radio France Internationale. Three Bulgarians have been charged in connection with the vandalism, with Misho Angelov identified as the primary organizer continuing these hostile acts. The campaign is part of wider Moscow-backed operations targeting Europe, notably involving anti-Semitic graffiti on Jewish and Roma community buildings in France over the past two years. The intelligence report highlights the strategic use of symbolic vandalism by Russian actors to fuel tensions between Jewish and Roma communities and destabilize European societies.