DECRYPTION – “Butcher”, “genocide” or even “killer”… The American president has never minced his words to describe Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine. The French president prefers caution.
On the night of Tuesday April 12 to Wednesday April 13, United States President Joe Biden accused Vladimir Putin of “genocide” of the Ukrainian people. A very strong word, which has real legal resonance. He felt that “the evidence is piling upand that it would be up to international bodies to decide on the legal qualification of the term. Until then, this word was used only by the Ukrainian head of state Volodymyr Zelensky and by two European representatives: the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who spoke of “possible genocide“, and the same day by the Polish Prime Minister, who took up the term by calling for the creation of a “international commission of inquiry for genocide».
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On the French side, caution remains in order. Emmanuel Macron prefers the reserve by continuing to use the qualifier “crimes of guerre» and thus avoid «an escalation of words“. On France Bleu Thursday, April 14, he explained himself again: “The word genocide has a meaning and (…), today…
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