"There are no other alternatives: it's either peace initiatives or war escalation", he said, believing that "the accumulation of weapons of mass destruction can today turn this war into a catastrophe for mankind today".
"To dare to peace is to support, to help the Ukrainians to defend themselves, to protect themselves, and to obtain an urgent humanitarian ceasefire", and "it is to support the pacifist Russian people (...) who are suffering the repression", he insisted, believing that there should not be "an anti-Russian climate".
"To dare to peace, he continued, is to do everything to avoid extending this war to Europe, to prevent NATO from getting involved and to avoid embracement".
Because of his displacement, Mr. Roussel did not demonstrate Saturday in Paris, but his campaign manager Ian Brossat went to a Parisian demonstration of the PCF and the Movement for Peace place Denfert-Rochereau.
"Mr. Putin made the worst choice, the choice of the worst (...) the choice of force, that of weapons, blood, death. Nothing can justify this war", he said. said, calling for sanctions "heavy, strong and powerful enough to deter Putin from persisting in this deadly and dead end path".
And he also wanted to "immediately warn these French multinationals, listed on the CAC40, the Total, the BNP, the LVMH and so many others who could still get rich in 2022 during this war as they did during the pandemic".
"It is out of the question that we accept to see our bills soar today at the same time as their profits and their dividends. There are pandemic profiteers, there are war profiteers," he said. He denounces.
Finally, he called for "welcoming Ukrainian refugees fleeing war and all refugees fleeing wars".
"Europe must not be a center where refugees are sorted according to their origin. The pain cannot be sorted out, the suffering cannot be sorted out", he insisted, castigating the declarations "of the candidates, from the right and from the extreme right" and of the "candidate President of the Republic who said that walls had to be built at the borders of Europe".
© 2022 AFP