Source: Ruptly
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that French Ambassador Pierre Levy was summoned to the ministry due to Paris’s behavior towards Russian journalists who were prevented from attending Emmanuel Macron’s press conference.
A statement on the ministry’s website said: “On September 18, the Ambassador of the French Republic to Russia, Pierre Lévy, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where a strong protest was expressed to him against the openly discriminatory and anti-Russian actions on the part of representatives of the French authorities against the agency’s correspondents.” RIA Novosti and the editor-in-chief of Russia News at the G20 summit in New Delhi who were rudely denied access to a press conference by French President Emmanuel Macron.
The ministry added: “The Russian side has given initial assessments of Paris’s unfriendly actions, which blatantly violate the basic principle of freedom of the press and prevent its representatives from doing their work.”
The statement continued: “The French organizers’ refusal to apologize for their actions, including the attempt to seize the phones of Russian journalists that were used to film this ugly incident, once again demonstrates Paris’s firm intention to adhere to the apartheid regime against the Russian media.”
The Russian side noted that these and similar measures “are in line with the political campaign that was launched in France long before the start of the special military operation in Ukraine to combat the opposition opinion embodied in the Russian media, as Russian journalists ask uncomfortable questions about Paris’s role in stirring up global problems.” And regional.”
In this regard, Moscow addressed the French authorities, represented by the French ambassador, “demanding that they stop pressure and discriminatory measures against unwanted media outlets, and stop discrimination.”