A villa in Biarritz belonging to the ex-son-in-law of the Russian president, Vladimir Poutine, has been placed by Bercy on the list of “frozen” real estate, because they belong to personalities sanctioned by the European Union for their proximity to the Russian power. the end of their custody, because of this “violation of domicile”. This villa is now on the list, regularly updated by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, of real estate belonging to more than 500 people and entities under European Union sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and frozen to prevent their sale. Its owner, Kirill Chamalov, is presented by international media as the former son-in-law of the Russian president after his marriage to Katerina Tikhonova, Mr. Putin’s youngest child. and a man presenting himself as an opponent of the regime of Vladimir Putin. In a video that the local activist had posted on YouTube, one of the two men was seen strolling through the huge residence built on the side of the cliff under Napoleon III and having unobstructed view of the ocean. “This house was bought with money stolen by Putin, by his mafia, from the Russian people and the peoples oppressed by Putin’s Russia,” he said in a comment. In another video, also posted on YouTube, the The second man in question was waving the Ukrainian flag on one of the two terraces of the villa, the film bearing subtitles such as “victory in Biarritz. Capture of Poutine’s palace”. At the end of February, the exterior of Villa Suzanna, an Art Deco-style residence also built facing the ocean, in Anglet, near Biarritz, belonging to a real estate company with the names of the ex-wife of the Russian president, Lioudmila, and her husband, the Russian businessman Arthur Ocheretny, had been degraded.