“Macron has repeatedly said that he is on the side of Ukraine. Maybe it’s time to stop this verbal diarrhea and side with France,” the deputy head of the Security Council wrote in French.
Police officers in France shot and killed 17-year-old Nael on Tuesday after he claimed he was refusing to comply with their demands. Following the incident, large-scale protests began in the country, leading to riots and clashes with law enforcement officers. The number of detainees reached 1.3 thousand people. Local media also reported on the deployment of special forces in Lyon to suppress the pogroms.
The president of the international affairs committee of the Federation Council, Grigory Karasin, saw in the events in France the characteristics of a “serious crisis”, to which neither Brussels nor Washington are in a hurry to respond.
