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The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, denounced the "indignity" of the recent rather virulent remarks by Russian leaders against France, but also against Gabriel Attal. The head of state sees this as a clear sign of “nervousness” on the part of Russian leaders.
Emmanuel Macron denounced on Friday the "indignity" of recent virulent remarks by Russian leaders against France, and in particular the vice-president of the Duma Pyotr Tolstoy, seeing it as a clear sign of "nervousness".
“I think that their indignity is enough not to comment on them,” judged the French president in response to a question from a journalist in Brussels after a European Council, confiding his “astonishment at such nervousness and of such lack of nerve among Russian officials". Piotr Tolstoy, interviewed by BFMTV, notably promised death to any French soldier coming to Ukrainian soil, or attacked the homosexuality of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.
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