Statements of Support (2003-2013) / French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

“This case is closely followed by the highest authorities in France. (…) What seemed to be, years ago, a case based on complex economic matters turned into a major human rights trial. (…) The fight of MBK, courageous, with a great dignity, against a system that tries without success to destroy him, made him become a symbol, an icon of human rights in Russia. (…) France always support people who resist in front of a system that tries to break them”

François Zimeray, human rights ambassador for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, August 2010