Liberated the three Spaniards detained for trying to enter the Russian cosmodrome of Baikonur | Spain
The three Spaniards detained on Tuesday night as soon as they tried to access the Russian cosmodrome of Baikonurin Kazakhstan, they have been released this Wednesday, according to sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The same sources have added that the Embassy of Spain in Astaná, capital of the Asian country, « is establishing contact with those interested to provide consular assistance, » but they have not specified without weighing any accusation against them and if they can leave Kazakh territory.
The Russian state agency RIA on Wednesday reported the arrest of three Spanish citizens and an Australian when they tried to enter a cosmodrome hangar. « Tonight in the vicinity of the assembly and supply complex of the transfers Burán were arrested three Spaniards and an Australian, » said the agency, according to which the four foreigners were being interrogated.
Local authorities periodically report the arrest of tourists trying to access the facilities, EFE reports. Last November a Frenchman and a German were arrested and months before, two French. In September 2023, three Spaniards were also arrested for a similar purpose.
The Baikonur cosmodrome, rented by the Kazakh government to the Russian Federation until 2050, was built in the fifties of the last century by the Soviet authorities as the launch basis of the USSR’s space programs, such as the Sputnik.
