Four Czech Nationals Detained In Albania While Photographing Military Site - Reports
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published August 22, 2022 | 04:00 AM
PRAGUE (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 22nd August, 2022) Four Czech nationals were detained in the Albanian city of Polican, allegedly for taking photographs of a military facility, the Czech Television reports.
The two men and two women in question, who were detained on Sunday, reportedly while taking photos of a tunnel leading to an underground military facility, told police that they were tourists, the Czech Television said.
The Czech Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that it had been informed of the incident by Albania, but had not been contacted by any of the four detained individuals.
According to Albanian media reports, nothing illegal was found during the inspection of the four detainees.
Earlier on Sunday, Albanian media reported that two Russian citizens, 33-year-old Svetlana Timofeyeva and 23-year-old Mikhail Zorin, were detained in Albania for allegedly breaching a weapons factory in Gramsh. They reportedly told the police that they were photographers and bloggers who document abandoned military facilities.
There was reportedly another young man with a Ukrainian passport among those detained, but his identity remains unknown.
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