“Employees of the consular department of the embassy regularly visit Vinnik in the prison block of the Drink-Salpetriere hospital. He is feeling fine, he began to quit the repeated 40-day hunger strike and take food, ”the RIA Novosti diplomat said.
According to him, Vinnik was given the opportunity to call a landline phone to the numbers of relatives and lawyers agreed with the judge, and there is a TV in the ward that shows French channels.
“According to Vinnik himself, the attitude towards him is correct,” Meshkov said.
January 24, it became known about the extradition of Vinnik from Greece to France. On January 29, a court in Paris left a Russian under arrest. The next day, Vinnik refused to stop the hunger strike in protest against the infringement of his rights in European courts.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow will seek the extradition of a Russian from Paris. France noted that in the case of a Russian citizen, the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations are respected.
Alexander Vinnik was arrested in Greece in 2017 at the request of the United States, where he is accused of creating, without a license from the American authorities, cryptocurrency exchanges through which, according to the United States, billions of dollars are laundered.