Vladimir Putin encouraging French voters to vote left in presidential elections, calling those voters cheaters like brooms? We see that in a video that has been shared more than 12,000 times on Facebook.
In this three-minute video, we see a woman allegedly questioning the Russian President about the presidential election in France. Vladimir Putin lashes out at French voters who are “all for economic ultraliberalism”. “In order to earn a salary of 100 euros, they are willing to destroy their public service,” the subtitle of this video reads. “But they didn’t understand that school or medical care cost much more,” the Russian president reportedly continued, calling himself a “dictator” later in the video. Vladimir Putin’s alleged exits are punctuated by footage of the hall, where spectators seem to be enjoying themselves, laughing or smiling.
This parody montage has been shared thousands of times. – Facebook screenshot
Surprising remarks posted multiple times on Facebook and even Instagram.
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Albert Taxil, the netizen behind this montage, confirmed to Libération that it was a “joke”. Images are from the 2019 edition of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. In the thirtieth second of the video we see the logo of this economic assembly and its initials in English and Russian.
The excerpt is from the plenary session of the forum. The subtitles on the French presidential elections and French voters have been added and have nothing to do with what Vladimir Putin actually said, as can be seen in the video of the sequence available on the Forum Facebook page. The session was doubled live, as noted by our France 24 colleagues.
In these few minutes, visible from 2:52 a.m., Vladimir Putin talks about his Ukrainian counterpart. Journalist Sophie Shevardnadze asks him why he didn’t congratulate Volodymyr Zelenskyy on his election and if he is ready to meet him. “Listen, I don’t know this man,” replies the Russian head of state. “I hope we will meet one day,” he continues. From what I’ve seen, he’s a good specialist in the field he’s been working in so far. He’s a good actor. »
Vladimir Putin then lists the qualities that he believes make a statesman and states that he doesn’t know if he possesses them. He then criticized the Ukrainian president for contradictory statements: he says one thing during the election campaign and the other afterwards. He concludes: I’m not saying that he ruined everything with his declarations without having done anything else, no. We will see. »