France, Nov. 1 -- Four Bulgarians were sentenced to between two and four years in prisonfor their involvementin spray-paintingblood-red handson Paris' Holocaust Memorial in an act of vandalism that French intelligence services linked to a destabilisationcampaign by Russia.

A Paris court handed down two-year sentences to Georgi Filipov and Kiril Milushev, who acknowledged their role in the graffiti painting, and four years to Nikolay Ivanov, accused of recruiting them.

The alleged ringleader, Mircho Angelov, who has not been captured received three years in prison.

All four were also banned from entering French territory for life.

Some 500 red hands were painted in May 2024 on a wall in the Maris district honouring those who helped res...