According to Macron, Shoigu tried to accuse France of involvement in the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall. in the Moscow region.
President of France Emmanuel Macron said that the minister’s negotiations The defense of Sébastien Lecornu with Russian Minister Sergei Shoigu was tense. According to him, Shoigu tried to accuse France of involvement in the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in the Moscow region.
Shoigu’s statements that Ukraine and France could have played a role in the terrorist attack are ridiculous, the French president noted. France24 writes about this.
It is noted that the French and Russian defense ministers held their first conversation since 2022. However, the tone of this dialogue, according to Macron, was strange and threatening. information for the fight against terrorism. Russia, for its part, told France that it hopes that the French intelligence services are not involved in the recent attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall in the Moscow region,” the French Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
At the same time, Macron emphasized that such statements by the Russian Federation were strange and threatening, especially after the Islamic State extremists took responsibility for the terrorist attack.
However, the French President said that Paris continues to maintain contacts with Russia, since it has useful information about the origin and organization of the terrorist attack.
Macron also noted that the Russian Federation’s accusations against the Ukrainians and French are meaningless.
“It’s ridiculous to say that France is behind this, that the Ukrainians are behind this. This is nonsense. This is not true, this is a manipulation of information that is part of the Russian arsenal of war,” he emphasized. < /p>
Recall that the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in Crocus.
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