Euroverify: El Kremlin amplifica el bulo sobre la cocaína de Macron para desacreditar a los aliados

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14/5/2025

Euroverify: El Kremlin amplifica el bulo sobre la cocaína de Macron para desacreditar a los aliados

Las acusaciones de que los dirigentes de Francia, Alemania y el Reino Unido tomaron drogas mientras viajaban en tren camino de Kiev forman parte de una campaña rusa de desinformación más amplia.

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00:00Macron, Mertz and Starmer targeted by Russian cocaine claims

00:04Viral social media posts are alleging that French President Emmanuel Macron,

00:13German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer

00:16were caught taking cocaine on their trip to Kiev.

00:20At the centre of the claims is this video,

00:22showing the three leaders greeting one another on a train from Poland to Ukraine,

00:26ahead of a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky to reaffirm their support for his country.

00:31Social media users allege that the white object next to Macron's glass is a bag of cocaine,

00:36which he hurriedly removes, and that the object next to Mertz's hand is a snuff spoon.

00:41The claims have also come from the highest echelons of Russia's government,

00:45with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posting on her official Telegram channel

00:50that the trio got high together.

00:52But they have all the hallmarks of being part of a widespread Russian disinformation campaign

00:57designed to harm Ukraine and its allies' credibility.

01:00The Elysee Palace stated on Ex that the alleged bag of cocaine is a mere tissue

01:05and that the fake news has been spread by France's enemies at home and abroad.

01:10Indeed, it's been shared all over the internet by pro-Russian accounts and media,

01:14and has even been pushed by far-right figures who are routinely critical of Ukraine.

01:19The objects causing the controversy clearly look like a tissue and some sort of stirrer,

01:24as opposed to anything related to drugs,

01:26and that's what substance use researchers told Euroverify too.

01:30A clip of the meeting was recorded and shared by both the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse,

01:35two reputable news agencies which made no reference to any drug use

01:39and which surely wouldn't have been allowed in the room had anything untoward been going on.

01:44Other accounts have since been sharing doctored images,

01:47trying to make the tissue look more like a bag of cocaine,

01:50but these too are ultimately part of the disinformation campaign.

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