Questioned by Gilles Bouleau and Anne-Sophie Lapix in the television news of TF1 and France 2 on Thursday, Emmanuel Macron spoke in particular on France’s support for Ukraine as well as on security in Europe and in France. An interview in which the Head of State was “excellent” according to journalist Franz-Olivier Giesbert, guest of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews on Friday. “I am an honest journalist […] I regularly hit Emmanuel Macron with short arms and there, frankly, it was sober, it was good,” he said.
“If he wasn’t afraid, he wouldn’t have had Alexeï Navalny killed”
The head of state reaffirmed Thursday that it was unthinkable for him that Moscow would prevail on the ground in Ukraine. And to evoke, when speaking of Vladimir Putin, “a person who crossed all limits”. “A few months ago, Ukraine was not in this situation and a few months ago, we did not think that Donald Trump would perhaps win the elections […] when we look a little further away, there is a form of concern,” continued the writer, judging that it was necessary to show the muscles to Vladimir Putin.
At the microphone of Europe 1, Franz-Olivier Giesbert estimated that the head of state had addressed Thursday evening as much to the French as to Vladimir Putin. “[Emmanuel Macron] did pedagogy, he explained the reality of things. Russia is a kleptocracy, a mafia governs. [Poutine] doesn’t want to be hanged, he’s afraid of his people. And what is the way out for him? It’s always the headlong rush, moving forward, feeding the nationalists, that is to say small conquests regularly […] If he was not afraid, he would not have had Alexeï Navalny killed, he would not have had his former right arm attacked with a hammer, he is someone who is not at ease “, observed the journalist.
During his interview, the President of the Republic declared that the “Kremlin regime is the adversary” of France but not its enemy. “We are not waging war against Russia and the Russian people. We are ready to respond to a possible escalation by Russia”, he said, not ruling out sending ground troops to Ukraine.