IGY Vieux-Port de Cannes
Historic harbour of stone jetties and yacht pontoons beneath the old hilltop quarter.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the IGY Vieux-Port de Cannes follows a legal fight from twenty twenty-two, when European sanctions over the war in Ukraine reached a Russian banker and the yacht he kept moored in Cannes. It turns on French customs officers, a raid report, and a lawyer who argued that a frozen boat was still his client's to use. Best heard out on the old stone jetty, looking across the pontoons.
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