) once again I was convinced how we would win.

The headlines themselves already sound like a guide to action: “Two Russians pursue their aggressors to the most disadvantaged neighborhoods”.

The festering reputation of the sub-Paris suburb of Saint-Denis has long surpassed the glory of all the “rookeries” and “raspberries.” And every Frenchman knows well that even in broad daylight, if you stop there at a traffic light, all the doors of your car must be locked and the windows raised, without single slit.

The two Russians who found themselves at the ill-fated intersection on Tuesday, June 20, did not do this. And so we received a sudden “visit” to the back seat, from where a couple of “locals” passing by on a moped grabbed the briefcase that was lying there and rushed away.

For all their cunning, the couple on the moped also could not know everything in the world, and in particular, the fact that the man who owned the briefcase turned out to be Russian, a representative of a company working, according to the press, for the “Russian government.”

The man was traveling accompanied by a bodyguard. And the bodyguard was, by the way, a woman.

This state of affairs may not be new to you, if you remember galloping horses, burning huts and much more, in comparison with which a pair of black warriors on a moped is defined by the usual formulation “what a miracle.”

But the couple on the moped, as well as their relatives and friends, as well as, later, the French police and the press, were thrown into a stupor by the further development of events.

The Russians in a robbed car set off in pursuit of a couple on a moped, followed them through almost the entire city in its worst manifestations, until the couple on a moped realized that they would not be able to get away and led their pursuers to the very lair of the entire local “lads”, where more than 50 people came out to meet the riders in a few seconds.

In such cases, the French police stop even before entering the “neighbourhood”, knowing full well that if they lay a finger on any local violator, noisy “uprisings” with breaking car windows and massive arson will follow.

Therefore, the “lads” were numb with surprise when both seemingly “victims” got out of the car in a rage and grabbed the couple on the moped by the chests, not at all worried that they were surrounded by a fire-breathing crowd.

How everything happened there can only be told by those same “two Russians” who amazed the world, and by the local gang, who were so stunned by what was happening that they did not react in any way to the incomprehensible, but apparently harsh words (from the vocabulary of “Russian government”. ..) and even endured several pokes and shoves, which the “two Russians” managed to generously distribute to everyone.

But that's not all. The same “Arctic fox in the constellation Libra”, which is often remembered in interesting circumstances, as they say, awaits you ahead:

After the couple from the car got their briefcase back from the couple on the moped and exchanged explanations with the increasingly growing gang, the police were finally called to the scene.

Moreover, according to some reports, the police were called by the lads, not the Russians. She, the boys, was so shocked by the Russian invasion of her possessions, which were still in the category of untouchables, that, according to Pushkin, she simply could not come up with a better idea.

And so I decided to play it safe. Just in case.

“A bear is not a ferret after all” (c)

The police fell into an even greater stupor when they arrived at the scene and saw the situation. Not at ease with unexpected luck, the police grabbed four: two from the moped and two more from the crowd so that they would not appear.

And now a case has been opened against all four in the Bobigny prosecutor's office.

Everyone, of course, will be released in peace, as always. But the lesson for the good fellows will remain.

There is no need to be rude to strangers, as Belmondo’s hero said. And even more so for women.

In every stranger, under the most European-looking mask, a Russian aggressor can easily hide.

P.P.S. uv. Editors: We do not yet know whether we are talking about the incident with the head of the Rosoboronexport delegation S. Kornev. If yes, we cannot help but express our gratitude. Our respect to S. Kornev.

From the comments:

There's nothing special here. I came to study in France in 1992, and the French told me like an epic that just now they tried to take away a wallet from a Russian intern. (And you need to understand that at that time the French scholarship was about 1000 USD, and our salary was about 8). The guy gave chase, grabbed a stone urn on the way and hit the robber right over the violent little head. As reparation, he took all the cash from a descendant of the Tuaregs. Well, yours, of course, too. There was simply no word for tolerance back then. That's probably why.
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Of course, the article is flattering for Russians, but the links still say that it was not the French Apaches who called the police, but the Russians themselves. Although the mere skill of driving a car, from which a moped could not escape through city streets and courtyards, evokes respect.

By the way, the Parisians, in their comments, are full of sarcasm about the Parisian authorities, who cannot curb crime, and the bandits themselves, who have finally received a rebuff, propose to recruit a special corps of 500 Russian women to fight crime and predict the disappearance of some members of that gang, you know why...
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They also write in the comments that in Putin’s country there is such a tough atmosphere for business, that our businessmen are seasoned guys... under Yeltsin, this means that our businessmen collected daisies

Google co-founder Larry Page feared losing control of the company in 2011 and even “veiled threats” to leave because of it, Bloomberg reports, citing recently released court documents. We are talking about a lawsuit by Google shareholders over the company's issuance of Class C shares without voting rights. In particular, Page feared that the company's other co-founder, Sergey Brin, or its then-CEO Eric Schmidt would sell their voting shares, which would result in them losing control over decision-making.

It was Page's concerns that led Google to issue nonvoting shares as a special dividend to investors in 2014, documents show. Moreover, before this, Google did not hide the fact that it was important for the founders to maintain control over the company. While Google issued Class A shares with one vote each during its 2004 IPO, Page, Brin and Schmidt each had Class B shares with 10 votes. Following Google, the founders of other technology companies, including Facebook and Snap, took advantage of this technique, Bloomberg notes.

This story began at the end of 2010, when Page was preparing to replace Schmidt as CEO, and Brin became interested in risky projects of the Google X laboratory, Bloomberg writes. Google's board of directors did not immediately approve the proposal to issue a new class of shares because management wanted the decision to be made quickly and because of concerns that it would not meet corporate governance standards. As a result, negotiations lasted more than a year. In particular, Page wanted the board to allow him to receive Brin's Class B shares in exchange for Class C shares. Otherwise, Page would have to pay $8.2 billion for them. In addition, Page did not want to make large acquisitions using shares, until non-voting shares are issued to ensure his control of Google is not diminished.

“Why should I work so hard if I could lose control [of Google]?” – Page wrote to then-board member Paul Otellini, who saw in these words a “veiled threat” to leave the company.

Ultimately, in April 2012, the board of directors authorized the issuance of non-voting shares, but persuaded Google's founders to accept tighter restrictions on transferring shares to each other. In particular, none of them should obtain complete control over voting shares. The shareholder lawsuit was settled when Page and Brin agreed to allow the board to better control the sale of non-voting shares. In 2015, as a result of a business reorganization, Google became part of the holding company Alphabet, whose CEO was Sundar Pichai. Page, Brin and Schmidt are no longer actively involved in the management of the company, but still control 56.5% of the voting power.

MOSCOW, June 22 – RIA Novosti. The car of the head of the Rosoboronexport delegation at the international aerospace show in Le Bourget in Paris, Sergei Kornev, was attacked by robbers; Four robbers were detained on suspicion of committing a crime, the motive of which is believed to be the theft of the driver’s handbag.

The fact that Kornev’s car was subjected to a robbery was reported by the representative of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia, Maria Vorobyova. According to her, the attack occurred on the evening of June 20 in Paris in the Saint-Denis area, when Kornev was returning from an exhibition in a rented car. The purpose of the attack was robbery.

“At the exit from the tunnel, the robbers, breaking glass and threatening physical harm, demanded money and valuables. Thanks to quick reaction and self-control, Sergei Kornev managed to keep his passport and documents with him. During the attack, he received minor injuries, and, fortunately, his health There is no threat. Hospitalization was not required. The driver of the car was not physically injured," a representative of the FSVTS told RIA Novosti.

The robbers were not interested in Kornev

Later from official representative The Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova learned the details of the incident. Referring to the results of the preliminary investigation, she said that the purpose of the attack was the banal theft of the driver’s bag, which was on the car’s seat. Zakharova explained that the car was rented to work with the Russian delegation.

“As a result of the attack, the criminals stole the bag of the driver of this car,” the diplomat said, clarifying that the driver was a woman who was not a citizen of the Russian Federation.

The bag contained the things of the driver of the car - money, documents. “The police were called. According to local police, four suspects were detained in hot pursuit,” Zakharova said.

In addition, following the incident, the Russian Embassy sent a note to the French Foreign Ministry with a request to thoroughly investigate this matter, Zakharova added.

Deputy spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry, Alexandre Giorgini, said at a briefing that the French Foreign Ministry regrets the attack on Kornev’s car.

"We regret this incident, for which an investigation was immediately launched. We will inform Russian authorities about its results," the diplomat said.

Not the first time

This is not the first case of car robbery of VIPs in the French capital. In August 2014, a whole scene from a Hollywood movie played out here, when a group of eight armed people attacked a motorcade saudi prince. One of the cars was cut off from the motorcade and then robbed - then 250 thousand dollars and some confidential documents disappeared.

And in February 2010, a robber on a scooter approached the car of Kristina Chernovetskaya, the daughter of the then mayor of Kyiv, standing in a traffic jam. According to the woman, her handbag was stolen, containing jewelry worth 4.5 million euros.

A blatant incident occurred near the French capital. The head of the Rosoboronexport delegation at the Le Bourget 2017 aerospace show, Sergei Kornev, after a packed business meetings and with the negotiations of the day in the evening he returned to Paris. He was only a few hundred meters away from the “peripherique,” ​​as the ring road around the city on the Seine is called, when his car was attacked for the purpose of robbery.

As told" Rossiyskaya newspaper" Press Secretary of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC of Russia) Maria Vorobyova, at the exit from the tunnel, the attackers broke the car window and, threatening physical harm, demanded money and valuables.

As we learned, resistance was offered to the raiders, which allowed Sergei Kornev to keep the documents and passport he had with him. True, as the FSMTC press secretary told the RG, during the attack he received “minor injuries, but, fortunately, nothing threatens his health.” Therefore, the head of the Rosoboronexport delegation did not need hospitalization. According to her, the driver of the car was not injured during the incident. The police arrived at the scene. She managed to quickly arrest four people, including one minor, who were suspected of raiding a Russian official.

As Maria Vorobyova said, representatives of the Russian Embassy in France promptly went to the commissariat of the La Plaine-Saint-Denis district, where the emergency occurred. In their presence, a report on the incident was drawn up and relevant evidence was taken. When asked how Sergei Kornev was feeling now, the FSMTC spokeswoman replied that he was “fine” and that he continued to work.

The air show continues, Sergei Konstantinovich has a lot to do, and this is what he is doing now,” she clarified.

"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" contacted the head of the consular department Russian embassy Dmitry Mezhaurov. He said that the situation was taken under special control.

Hijackers attack motorists traveling from airports to Paris

French law enforcement agencies the necessary investigative actions are carried out. We are in constant contact with them,” Dmitry Mezhaurov emphasized.

Indeed, these suburbs of the French capital, and there are mainly people from North African countries such as Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, last decades have become breeding grounds for crime. It comes to the point that in a number of neighborhoods, if the police appear, it is only in the form of reinforced, actually militarized, patrols.

It is there that gangs of raiders are concentrated, who regularly attack motorists heading from Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and Le Bourget airports to Paris. Moreover, the most convenient place for them is the Lundy tunnel (1357 meters) in front of Paris, where traffic jams usually form. And they act brazenly: they drive up on scooters or motorcycles to stuck cars (choosing more prestigious brands), smash the side glass to smithereens and snatch everything that catches their eye. Last November, two sisters, rich ladies from Qatar, were robbed in this manner. The bandits robbed them of five million euros worth of jewelry.

Despite the incident, Sergei Kornev continued to work at the salon in Le Bourges. Photo: vesti.ru

In February, a married couple from Russia became a victim of robbers. The couple flew by private jet to Le Bourget airport and headed to Paris in a limousine late that evening. Apparently, the criminals knew about them in advance. The car with the Russians was forced to pull over to the side of the road and they were robbed completely: they took money, jewelry, clothes - a total of 100 thousand euros.

It must be said that in Lately The raids occur not only on the highway leading to Paris, but also on other roads that motorists use to avoid traffic jams in the Lundy tunnel. They rob drivers according to the South American model at traffic lights, and also set up real traps. In particular, they tear down sewer hatches, in front of which, like it or not, you have to stop. Then they proceed according to the established scheme.

A legitimate question: why are the French police inactive? It works, a special flying squad has even been created that patrols in the danger zone. Some people are caught. However, new bandits take their place.

The driver of Mikheev's subordinate was violated in a group manner.

The Russian delegation still managed to impress the organizers and participants of the Le Bourget air show with something. Is it true, we're talking about not about any cutting-edge developments or even “superjets”. The sensation of yesterday was the robbery against the head of the Rosoboronexport delegation at the air show, Sergei Kornev. It remains completely unclear what Mr. Kornev forgot in the Saint-Denis district, which, according to Wikipedia, is “notorious for its crime rate, which is almost twice as high as the national average.” You can also find out from the free encyclopedia that in the commune where the trouble with Kornev happened, half of the residents are immigrants and citizens from overseas departments, and 70% of residents under 18 years of age have at least one emigrant parent, that is, Mr. Kornev for some reason went to such a cesspool where Daria Aslamova would not dare to step.

But the situation may turn out to be much sadder for Rosoboronexport, headed by Alexander Mikheev. The fact that reports of the incident are covered differently in the reports of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) and in the French press, numerous omissions in the reports make one suspect that something was left unsaid.

As reported by the FSVTS, the criminals attacked the car in which Kornev was driving. “The robbers, breaking glass and threatening physical violence, demanded money and valuables. Thanks to his quick reaction and self-control, Sergei Kornev managed to keep his passport and documents with him,” the Federal Service told Meduza.

Kornev himself, as the report says, “received minor bruises and abrasions,” and “the driver of the car was not physically injured.” Although publications in the French press indicate the opposite.

Earlier, the newspaper Le Figaro reported the incident, citing sources, without specifying the name of the Russian (he was mistakenly called the “head of the Russian delegation”). According to the newspaper, the attack took place in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, and as a result, a woman who was driving a car was injured. The publication says that she chased the criminals, but on the street she was beaten and sexually harassed, and several dozen people took part in the attack.

Serey Kornev heads the department for export of special equipment and services of the Air Force at Rosoboronexport. At the air show he heads the Rosoboronexport delegation. The entire Russian delegation is headed by the director of the FSMTC of Russia, Dmitry Shugaev. Vladimir Artyakov was appointed head of the joint delegation of the Rostec State Corporation and Rosoboronexport.

It is easy to see that the initial information raises more questions than it answers. For example, was money or valuables stolen from a Russian employee, and if so, to what extent? If so, were these funds public or private, and what was their source? No less interesting is the question of the notorious “documents” that Kornev allegedly defended. Are we talking about secret drawings, upcoming contracts, minutes of Rosvooruzhenie meetings, or just a collection of business cards? Is any of this missing or not?

I would really like to hear answers to these questions, otherwise the appearance of a car of a representative of the Russian defense industry among the Afro-Arab suburbs of Paris and its almost demonstrative robbery is very similar to a frame-up in order to write off the disappearance of some things as (allegedly) theft.

In addition, Rosvooruzhenie’s reputation is not the best. In reality, this company is led by the chairman of the board of directors, Sergei Chemezov, nominally by his puppet Alexander Mikheev, through whom Chemezov pulls off some very brazen scams. The Ruspres agency, in particular, talked about the failure of a contract for the repair of Russian helicopters delivered to Afghanistan, previously delivered there through a laying company, about the theft of a billion rubles from a contract for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles in Venezuela, about the sale of Ka-52 helicopters to Egypt below cost, about the theft of money for a never-created model of a “promising high-speed helicopter” against the backdrop of idle helicopter manufacturing plants in the country. Chemezov and Mikheev were directly involved in all these adventures. It remains only to clarify whether Kornev, who suffered from the Afro-French, is related to them?