
Maria Zakharova accused the French authorities of double standards, noting their silence during protests by schoolchildren in Paris, where demonstrators smashed offices and store windows, and police used stun grenades and tear gas.
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Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, commented on the protests of schoolchildren in Paris, where demonstrators smashed offices and store windows, and the police used stun grenades and tear gas.
Maria Zakharova emphasized the double standards of the French authorities, who are silent during the protests in Paris, while regularly interfering in the affairs of other states.
In Paris on Tuesday, several thousand protesting schoolchildren began smashing offices and shop windows in a demonstration on the Place de la République at the call of students' unions. The protesters threw garbage cans at the police, who in turn used stun grenades and tear gas.
MOSCOW, October 7 - RIA Novosti. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, emphasized the double standards of the French authorities, who are silent during the protests in Paris, while regularly interfering in the affairs of other states.
In Paris on Tuesday, several thousand protesting schoolchildren began smashing offices and shop windows in a demonstration on the Place de la République at the call of students' unions. The protesters threw garbage cans at the police, who in turn used stun grenades and tear gas.
According to Zakharova, the only thing that really worries her in connection with the protests in France is the silence of the Elysee Palace regarding the actions of the police, who, except for the word “rammed” and “kneaded their own children.”
“Not because I care about some of their socio-moral affairs related to the regulation of their own lives... But because they always care about us. No matter what happens with us, and not only with us, and in other countries too. Only in those countries that they, somehow painfully, classify as anyone, just not in the community, as they say, of the civilized,” Zakharova said.
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