The French Embassy in Moscow suspended the issuance of visas due to an attack on its employee

On Tuesday, the Consular Service of the French Embassy in Moscow suspended its work and temporarily does not give out visas, Katya Bartovski, Katya Bartovski, told the Echo of the Embassy of the French Embassy in the Russian Federation.

According to her, this happened in connection with an attack on one of the consulate service employee.

“The employee went home from work, three unknown people attacked him and beat him,” said Bartovski. “So far no one has been detained.” She found it difficult to say when the work of the consulate will be restored in full.

Later, the same information was confirmed by Interfax Press-Attas of the French diplomatic michelle Diplovic: "The consular service suspended the registration and issuance of visas in connection with the incident on the eve of the incident, when an employee of this service was attacked by three unknown people."

“We must recover, figure out what happened,” he said. According to the press attache, "the consular department employees were simply shocked by what happened, and the fact that today the work on issuing visas was disrupted is the issue of emotions." “This person has been working for a long time, the team knows him well, therefore, from a psychological point of view, such a reaction is understandable,” the diplomat noted.

Djokovich said that at present an employee who has been attacked "is undergoing a medical examination in the hospital." He did not give information about his state of health.

Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate does not confirm information about an attack on an employee of the French Embassy

According to ITAR-TASS, a representative of the information department of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate in the Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow does not confirm information about an attack on an employee of the French Embassy in the Russian Federation. "Information about the possible such incident was checked, but it is not confirmed," the source said.

The capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate noted that "there were no statements about the attack on the representative of the French Embassy in the police." “Only after the submission of such a statement, police officers begin to carry out investigative actions,” he explained.