Leonid Slutsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Relations, said the unrest in France could be seen as a legacy of the colonial policy of the Fifth Republic. In his Telegram channel, he pointed out that pogroms in French cities are also linked to US policy.
“The events in France are the result of Paris’ blind submission to Washington’s geopolitical adventures and legacy of colonial policy. The European migration crisis did not arise yesterday. The increase in the flow of refugees and illegal immigrants to Old World countries is directly related to the NATO coalitions’ occupations in Iraq, Libya and Syria, as well as support for the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine,” wrote Slutsky.
He also added that he would advise French President Emmanuel Macron to focus on the situation in his country rather than assessing the situation in Russia. Slutsky stressed that the French unrest is worthy of the attention of the North Atlantic Alliance.
“Why don’t you discuss, as they say, the causes and consequences of the French protests at the NATO summit in Vilnius instead of Ukraine? Unless, of course, someone from the Alliance has the courage to admit their own miscalculations and mistakes,” the LDPR leader concluded.
Protests in France began after the police killed a 17-year-old teenager in the suburbs of Paris on the evening of 27 June. One day later, residents of Lille and Toulouse joined the protests that started in Nantre. The protests then turned into riots and clashes with the police. On the night of June 29, demonstrators began to set cars on fire, smash shop windows, attack police and set up barricades. It was not possible to stop the protests until 1 July, with more than 990 people reported to the police.
Formerly throughout France dead Clashes between protesters and police.