Since the war in Ukraine, this is the first legal action against French banks.
According to our information, 76 plaintiffs of Russian origin but also French people with Slavic-sounding names have just filed a complaint against X for discrimination with the Paris court.
Seized on Monday, the justice will have to examine the dozens of pages which relate the Kafkaesque situation in which these people were plunged.
A few days after the attack on Ukraine, all of them became suspects with their banks, summoned by Europe to attack the accounts of Russian oligarchs close to Putin.
But instead of targeted actions, these establishments have carried out, to read the complaint, a sweep in their client portfolios.
Everything with a Russian name was caught in the nets of software and the ax fell on perfectly integrated people.
Their accounts have been blocked or closed, loans have been refused……
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