On Friday 1/3, the French minister responsible for European affairs, Jean-Noel Barot, turned against Russia. “The psychosis with them bed bugs in the beds, which had occupied France last fall, had been “artificially enlarged”” he said pointing to Vladimir Putin's country.
Asked by the TF1 channel about Russia's alleged destabilization efforts in Francethe minister returned to this case that had made the rounds of the world.
“THE war with bed bugs had been artificially magnified on social media by accounts that turned out to be Russian-inspired or of origin, and even a false connection had been created between the arrival of Ukrainian refugees and the spread of bed bugs,” he said, as reported by the Athens News Agency, citing AFP. “This was largely augmented by accounts linked to the Kremlin” he added.
Amateur photos and videos highlighting the presence of these insects, which feed on human blood and were supposed to have disappeared from everyday life since the 1950s, had flooded social media since mid-September.
The return of these harmful insects had become a matter of state, a few months before the Paris Olympics.
Seven schools and classrooms had been closed, but the cases that had been highlighted, one in a cinema seat, another in a train seat, had not all been proven.
According to Jean-Noel Barot, Russia's cyberattacks and disinformation operations “started to intensify two years ago, after the start of the war in Ukraine.”
“We know this because the president of the Republic created in 2021 a service called Viginum, whose mission is to identify these maneuvers aimed at destabilizing public opinion in France and weakening public support for Ukraine,” he recalled .
Source: News Beast
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