Diplomatic relations between Paris and Moscow is more tense. The number two of the French Embassy in Moscow, Zacharie Gross, was summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, learned Le Figaro This Wednesday, April 9. The diplomat’s summons intervenes after the brief detention of an employee of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Roissy airport. The latter went to a conference at UNESCO, in Paris, when she was retained and questioned.
Russian diplomacy spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the diplomat’s phone and computer had been confiscated. The employee would not have received her visa in time, according to Maria Zakharova, and could finally enter French territory after 24 hours spent in the border area.
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Towards “consequences”?
A note was then sent to the Quai d’Orsay by the Russian Embassy in Paris to protest this brief detention, relates Le Figaro. “We do not intend to leave this situation without consequences”warned the spokesperson for Russian diplomacy at a weekly point, without detailing which levers could be activated.
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The Kremlin also condemned the “Acts” of France, judging them “Inadmissible”. “This worsened our bilateral relations already damaged” even more “finally adds the spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov.
Relations between France and Russia are at its lowest, three years after the launch of the Russian invasion war of Ukraine, condemned by Paris. The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron denounces the Russian bombings killing civilians in Ukraine, criticizes Moscow for refusing the supply of peace made by the United States and describes Russia as a « menace » multidimensional for France and Europe.
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