This Friday, March 25, the Russian ambassador in Paris was summoned to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the publication of several cartoons.
“These posts are unacceptable. We said it clearly today to the Russian ambassador,” said the Quai d’Orsay, in the midst of a crisis between Russia and the West around its offensive in Ukraine.
One of the drawings shows Europeans on their knees licking Uncle Sam’s buttocks and bears the words in English “European solidarity as it is”.
The Russian ambassador in Paris was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Friday after the publication of cartoons on his account #Twitter deemed “unacceptable” by the Quai d’Orsay!
The tweet in question… pic.twitter.com/2ZVpcl17xp
— FanfanLesBoulettes (@Rustydufort) March 25, 2022
A second tweet removed
The second caricature presents an allegory of sick Europe, lying on a bed, into whom its torturers, the United States and the European Union, inject different substances entitled “neo-Nazism”, “Russophobia” or “Covid-19”.
lol the Russian Embassy in France (@AmbRusFrance) posted and then deleted this pic.twitter.com/uMOGLtbrKg
—Aric Toler (@AricToler) March 24, 2022
“We are trying to maintain a demanding channel of dialogue with Russia” but these “actions are perfectly inappropriate”, it was added at the Quai d’Orsay.
The Russian Embassy, joined by AFP, confirmed that “the question of the tweet published had been raised, among other points” during the interview on Friday morning. This tweet, which appeared on Thursday, has since been removed.
The Russian ambassador for his part “drew the attention of our French colleagues to the provocations and acts of vandalism against Russian diplomatic representations in France”, she added.