Frenchman accused of child porn in Siberia wants to clear name Frenchman Yoann Barbereau, who claimed to have been falsely accused of making child pornography in Russia, made the return home to Nantes by fleeing from house arrest in Siberia and trekking into Mongolia. On the run since September 2016, the former director of the Alliance Francaise in Irkutsk was sentenced in absentia in December 2016 to 15 years of hard labour by the Russian courts for sexual acts on his daughter, which he has always denied. He claims to have been the victim of a plot, with fabricated evidence, and has condemned the French government for failing to act. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES