France and Germany have jointly condemned a Russian police crackdown on a banned opposition rally that saw hundreds detained, with the Macron Government criticising an “excessive use of force” after a second weekend of protests over the exclusion of opposition candidates from local Moscow polls next month. Around 1500 people took part in the protests and President Putin is still to comment.
A Spokesperson for the French Foreign Ministry said: “France has values on freedom of expression in all its forms, including that of demonstrating peacefully and taking part in free and transparent elections. France calls on Russia to immediately free the people incarcerated in recent days and to conform to its commitments as a member of the OSCE and the Council of Europe.”
This has been met with a sense of incredulity by many with hundreds of thousands of Gilets Jaunes taking to the streets weekly where we have witnessed numerous deaths and maimings of protestors with ZERO condemnation of Macron’s storm troopers as well as the use of Chemical weapons on the streets of France.
Berlin said the police action on Saturday “violated” Russia’s international obligations and undermines the right to fair elections in the country. The arrests on Saturday were “out of all proportion to the peaceful nature of the protests against the exclusion of independent candidates” from city elections in Moscow, the German government said.
Crowds had walked along the capital’s central boulevard in a protest “stroll” over the refusal by officials to let opposition candidates run in September polls for city parliament seats — a local issue that has turned into a political crisis.
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