Government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Thursday that there were “reasonable doubts” about “the conditions” of the air crash in which the boss of the paramilitary group Wagner Evguéni Prigojine, at the origin of a rebellion in June in Russia , is presumed dead.
Government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Thursday that there were “reasonable doubts” about “the conditions” of the air crash in which the boss of the paramilitary group Wagner Evguéni Prigojine, at the origin of a rebellion in June in Russia , is presumed dead.
While US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that “few things are happening in Russia without Putin having something to do with it”, Olivier Véran, interviewed on France 2, abounded: “it is in principle a truth that can be established”. “We do not yet know the conditions under which this crash took place. We can have reasonable doubts”, argued the government spokesperson, without explicitly mentioning the mark of the Kremlin on this accident which would have cost the life of Yevgeny Prigozhin, his deputy and eight other passengers northwest of Moscow.
Yevgeny Prigojine is above all “the man of Putin’s base works”
For Olivier Véran, Evguéni Prigojine is above all “the man of Putin’s base works. What he has committed is inseparable from Putin’s policy, which had entrusted him with the responsibility of carrying out these abuses at the head of the Wagner group”. “Prigozhin leaves behind him mass graves. He leaves behind him a mess in a large part of the globe, I am thinking of Africa, Ukraine, Russia itself”, insisted the government spokesman again. .
Putin called the mercenary a “traitor”
Yevgeny Prigozhin instigated a rebellion in June against the Russian General Staff and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, led by his men, who briefly captured military sites in southern Russia before to go to Moscow. Vladimir Putin had called him a “traitor”, without pronouncing his name. Mr. Prigojine had quickly given up this mutiny, in the midst of the conflict in Ukraine.