EuroVerify : Macron, Merz et Starmer accusés d'usage de cocaïne par une campagne de désinformation
Les allégations selon lesquelles les dirigeants français, allemand et britannique auraient consommé de la drogue dans un train en route pour Kyiv s'inscrivent dans le cadre d'une vaste campagne de désinformation russe.
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Les allégations selon lesquelles les dirigeants français, allemand et britannique auraient consommé de la drogue dans un train en route pour Kyiv s'inscrivent dans le cadre d'une vaste campagne de désinformation russe.
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00:00Macron, Mertz and Starmer targeted by Russian cocaine claims
00:04Viral social media posts are alleging that French President Emmanuel Macron,
00:13German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer
00:16were caught taking cocaine on their trip to Kyiv.
00:20At the centre of the claims is this video,
00:22showing the three leaders greeting one another on a train from Poland to Ukraine,
00:26ahead of a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky to reaffirm their support for his country.
00:31Social media users allege that the white object next to Macron's glass is a bag of cocaine,
00:36which he hurriedly removes, and that the object next to Mertz's hand is a snuff spoon.
00:41The claims have also come from the highest echelons of Russia's government,
00:45with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posting on her official Telegram channel
00:50that the trio got high together.
00:52They have all the hallmarks of being part of a widespread Russian disinformation campaign
00:57designed to harm Ukraine and its allies' credibility.
01:00The Elysee Palace stated on X that the alleged bag of cocaine is a mere tissue
01:05and that the fake news has been spread by France's enemies at home and abroad.
01:10Indeed, it's been shared all over the internet by pro-Russian accounts and media,
01:14and has even been pushed by far-right figures who are routinely critical of Ukraine.
01:19The objects causing the controversy clearly look like a tissue and some sort of stirrer,
01:24as opposed to anything related to drugs,
01:26and that's what substance use researchers told Euroverify too.
01:30A clip of the meeting was recorded and shared by both the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse,
01:35two reputable news agencies which made no reference to any drug use
01:39and which surely wouldn't have been allowed in the room had anything untoward been going on.
01:44Other accounts have since been sharing doctored images,
01:47trying to make the tissue look more like a bag of cocaine,
01:50but these too are ultimately part of the disinformation campaign.