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Macron has no doubt that Russia is using the 2024 Olympics for its purposes

According to the Foreign Minister of France, they will seek from the European community of sanctions on those who are behind the spread of the Russian misinformation campaign. French President Emmanuel Macron, opening on Thursday, April 4, as part of the Olympic Games in Paris, a new Water Center, he said that the Kremlin was using the Paris Olympiad for its own purposes. The Guardian writes about it.

This is how French leader answered the journalist's questions about whether something could threaten something from the French Olympics from Moscow. "I have no doubt, including the information plan," Macron emphasized. According to the publication, such a comment Macron, who recently took a more strict position on the Russian-Ukrainian war, recognized the possible threats to the safety of a sports holiday by external forces.

It was not only about the war of Russia in Ukraine, the military confrontation of Israel and Hamas in gas, the activity of the Islamic state, etc. , but also about the saturation of Europe by the agent network of Russian special services, which was recently exposed. All this complicates the efforts to guarantee the safety of the Olympic Games-2024.

The president of the country stressed that the current Olympic games will take place against the backdrop of difficult, sometimes tragic events in the world. Especially, as the French special services point out, this concerns a misinformation campaign, deployed in Europe by Russian authorities, for which France has taken a rather unwavering position.

According to French Foreign Minister Stefan Sezhurn, they will continue to seek sanctions on Russia in the EU institutions for the spread of fake information and a clear falsehood after increasing the rhetoric of the French President in the matters of Russian aggression and Macron's statements about the introduction of European countries. "Moscow must be defeated, though he (Macron. - Ed.