French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday condemned the "baroque and threatening comments" of the Russian authorities after talks the day before between French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecorne and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, which led to "manipulation of 'information'" in Moscow's report, UNN reports citing Le Monde.
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russia has suggested that french intelligence services could have been involved in the march 22 terrorist attack near moscow, and the initiative of this exchange was aimed precisely at passing on to russia "useful information" about the origins of the act, the french president said in a speech on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the aquatic center of the olympic games in Paris.
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A French report on the first Paris-initiated talks since October 2022 says that the conversation was about the increased terrorist threat after the attack in Moscow, for which an affiliate of the Islamic State claimed responsibility.