Alessandra Zavatta March 24, 2022
Gérard Depardieu “on the run” like the Russian oligarchs. The very wealthy transalpine actor has been a Russian citizen since January 3, 2013, after a dispute with the French tax authorities over excessive taxes. The decree recognizing his new nationality was signed by President Vladimir Putin, who three days later invited him to lunch at a dacha overlooking the Black Sea, and so it was inevitable that Depardieu would subsequently support Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Finding yourself on the list of “unwelcome people in Ukraine. But now it’s bad for Moscow. And like the oligarchs looking for a safe place, he chose to live between Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. In the country led by Recep Tayyip, Erdogan has planned to moor the Notre Dame d’Afrique, a tuna fishing boat built in 1964 that naval engineer Turhan Soyaslan is converting into a yacht with lots of old machinery that can be fixed in the hold. It will house a duplex apartment with all mod cons, because grumpy Gérard has put his house in Paris, the vineyards and all the properties in France up for sale and wants to make a living by sailing.
“Not a luxury,” he emphasizes about the ship. “I just want to live in peace surrounded by the sea. For this I have bought two fishing boats, one will be anchored in Istanbul and the other in Dubai. I don’t want to stay in France anymore, I will only go there to make a film ». “Notre Dame d’Afrique”, a nineteen and a half meter long wooden boat, was found in a shipyard in Marseille in 2019; The restoration will be completed shortly.
In Turkey, in Marmaris, two days ago after crossing from the Antilles “Eclipse”, the antimissile yacht of Chelsea patron Roman Abramovich, a Russian oligarch, was “haunted” by sanctions because he was considered a “Friend of Putin”. Not far away, in Bodrun, another yacht “My Solaris from Montenegro moored on March 21st. Belarusian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko, who built “Motor Yacht A in the United Arab Emirates, will “keep company with Depardieu in Dubai. “Sailing yacht A”, on the other hand, is stopped in Trieste and frozen by the Guardia di Finanza due to the sanctions imposed in connection with the war between Russia and Ukraine. Depardieu left Dubai these days before making a stopover in Istanbul and studying the new accommodation.
