The incident comes one month after an assailant hurled Molotov cocktail at the Russian House of Science and Culture, an important cultural institution in Paris that promotes Franco-Russian relations.
The incident, precipitated by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, comes as Europe grapples with a worrying uptick in ethnic hatred directed at ordinary Russians.
Following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Russians and Russian-speaking Germans have increasingly been the targets of seething ethnic hostility in the past few weeks, facing hundreds of attacks and exclusion from healthcare facilities and restaurants.
