Article: Berezovsky: French Police Raided Villa

SOPHIE NICHOLSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
05-12-2005
Dateline: PARIS
Police, some of them armed, swooped down by helicopter to the luxury French Riviera villa of self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, seizing documents and computers in a daylong search, police said Thursday.

Berezovsky was not at the rented seaside villa on the Cap d'Antibes when the raid took place Wednesday _ in fact, he hasn't been there for four years, he said _ but his 81-year-old mother was.

"Initially she thought it was a performance of the Cannes Festival ... because people were armed and in masks," he told The Associated Press by telephone. The film festival in nearby Cannes opened Wednesday.

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