Pierre Malinowski

Pierre Malinowski (born 5 August 1987) is a former French Army corporal and former parliamentary assistant to the European Parliament. He is a member of the political right and is connected with the Kremlin. His actions, and those of his foundation, have elicited controversy.

Biography Pierre Malinowski was born in Orainville, near Reims, France. His father, Alain Malinowski, was an amateur historian and is currently the mayor of Orainville. His family is of Polish origin. He joined the National Front and was hired as parliamentary assistant after four years. However, Libération reports that when he began to focus more on archaeology, he didn't cut his political ties with the extreme right.

In 2016, he travelled to Moscow with Marion Maréchal and Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya. According to his site, he was invited to the inauguration of Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in May 2018, and is known to be close to the Russian President, whom he met after an archaeological dig in France.

The Air Cocaine affair Malinowski confirmed to France 2 via telephone that he participated in the so-called "Air Cocaine Affair," according to Le Parisien. His employer, Aymeric Chauprade, was also involved. They were arrested before their departure from the Dominican Republic on an airport tarmac. They were held for 15 months in a Dominican jail before being sentenced to 20 years in prison. Because of their lawyers' appeal, the two pilots were allowed to go on bail, but ordered to stay in the country. In a plan organised by Chapraude, Malinowski took them on a speedboat outside of the country to the French island of St. Martin. They then boarded an airplane to France, where they were arrested by French authorities. For his participation, an arrest warrant was issued for him by the authorities of the Dominican Republic, which led to an investigation into him by Interpol. He justified his role in the affair by claiming "military solidarity." it leads a number of research projects in France and in Russia.

The Russian Expedition in France A Russian expeditionary force was sent to France during World War I, who ended up participating in the wave of mutinies sweeping across France. Starting in 2013, Malinowski organised an archaeological dig in Cormicy, France to explore for the remains of these soldiers.

The Crimean War From the 1–20 October 2020, excavations undertaken in Crimea and at Sevastopol found dozens of soldier's bodies. There were French soldiers killed during the Battle of Inkerman; English soldiers killed during the Siege of Sevastopol; and Russian soldiers killed during the Battle of the Alma. The actions of Malinowski aroused controversy. Russia and the government of Sevastopol have authorized Pierre Malinowski to organize the funerals of more than 150 French soldiers, found in 2013 in Sevastopol during construction work. They are now buried in the cemetery of Sevastopol, along with 20,000 other French soldiers.

Stalingrad Project On 19–30 April 2021, a project is organized in Volgograd on the theme of the battle of Stalingrad, with the presence of veterans from Russia, France and USA.

Leningrad Project On 29 October 2021, the foundation organizes a meeting of Russian, French and American veterans in Saint-Petersburg at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, to commemorate the defense of the Siege of Leningrad.

Courcy Project In September 2023, Pierre Malinowski finds the remains of 6 soldiers from the Russian Expeditionary Force in France, killed on 16 April 1917 in Courcy. The soldiers are buried on 27 October 2023 in the Russian cemetery of Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand in the Marne department.

The Winterberg Tunnel On 4–5 May 1917 in Craonne (Chemin des Dames), more than 275 young German soldiers of the R.I.R 111 from Wurtenberg disappeared in a tunnel. The nearly 300-meter-long tunnel was used to supply the front line with men, arms and ammunition. The French artillery managed to destroy the two entrances and the 275 soldiers remained stranded more than 20 meters underground. Only three were saved a week later. After more than 20 years of research by his father, Alain Malinowski, he decided to illegally dig it up in January 2020, forcing the hand of the French and German governments.