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Did Russian paramilitaries vandalise Niger memorial to 1989 terror attack victims?

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The UTA DC-10 - UT772 memorial in Niger.
The UTA DC-10 - UT772 memorial in Niger. © Association des Familles de l'attentat contre le DC10 d'UTA/Twitter

The area around a monument commemorating the deaths of 170 passengers of a French airliner brought down by a bomb has attracted a great deal of satellite surveillance interest from Russian paramilitary Earth Observation contractors. This unusual activity suggests that the Russians may be behind the act of vandalism.

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