PARIS - The staged "murder" of anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko has stunned observers and enraged Russia after Ukraine accused Moscow of plotting his assassination in a stunt which actually has a precedent. It was then that French authorities staged Tanase's abduction. The following day, accompanied by two policemen from the service she reported her husband's disappearance to her local police station. Tanase was taken to a safe house in Brittany for three months while the Romanian Securitate were accused of his killing. A Paris newspaper then got wind of the truth and Tanase promptly emerged on the Actuel magazine's premises to give a press conference.

Source: Bangkok Post May 31, 2018 03:45 UTC