The former Prime Minister, a member of the Board of Directors of the Russian Petrochemical Enterprise Sibur, deplored “the refusal of Westerners” to take into account the position of Russia on the presence of NATO in its Sphere of influence.
Le Monde with AFP
Former Prime Minister François Fillon attracted new reviews, Thursday, February 24, after deploring “the refusal of Westerners” to hear the Russian claims concerning the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO ).
m. Fillon had already been criticized by several politicians after joining the Board of Directors of the Russian Giant of Petrochemical Sibur, in particular controlled by Leonid Mikhelon, one of the richest men in Russia, and Guennadi Temtchenko, a loved one. President Putin, targeted by recent sanctions of the United Kingdom.
“In 2014, I regretted the conditions of the annexation of Crimea and today I condemn the use of force in Ukraine”, said on Twitter former Prime Minister of Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012) on Thursday morning. “But for ten years, I have warned against the refusal of Westerners to take into account the Russian claims on the expansion of NATO. This attitude today leads to a dangerous confrontation that could have been avoided”, estimates- he.
“No, there is no but”
“François Fillon is an employee of Vladimir Putin” and “we will have to stop all these betrayals,” said BFM-TV Europété Raphaël GLUCKSMANN (public square). The member for the Republic in March YELL BRAUN-PIVET, President of the Commission of the laws of the National Assembly, estimated on Twitter that “no, there is no but. The war is the result of the one who decides to take it. This half-conviction does not you Honore not “.
The number three of the Republicans (LR), Aurélien Pradied, has, him, estimated on public Senate that François Fillon “no longer belongs to political life” and that he had so “not to comment on his situation ” The candidate LR to the presidential election, Valérie Pécresse, had used similar arguments on Wednesday night, in a broadcast on BFM-TV before the invasion of Ukraine, saying that “François Fillon left the policy” and “has the right to To make a living, we have to leave him alone “.
Wednesday night on LCI, the ecologist candidate, Yannick Jadot, had qualified François Fillon of “Allied a dictator who engages the war in Europe”. The Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, had estimated Sunday that he had been “accomplice” of Vladimir Putin by joining the Sibur group.