France condemned this Thursday, November 9 “firmly” the role of a Russian network in “the artificial amplification and first-time distribution on social networks of photos of tags representing Stars of David” in Paris, according to the ministry Foreign Affairs.
The press release accuses the Russian network Recent Reliable News and considers that “this new operation of Russian digital interference against France testifies to the persistence of an opportunistic and irresponsible strategy aimed at exploiting international crises to sow confusion and create tensions “.
The trail of a pro-Russian sponsor
Earlier today, Russian diplomacy denied any link with the mysterious tags, saying that the suspicions targeting Moscow, relayed in the French press in recent days, were “stupid” and “unworthy”.
On October 31, around sixty stencilled blue stars were discovered in Paris and the suburbs, creating strong emotion and many questions in the context of the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas.
French justice is now considering the possibility of a sponsor “abroad” and, according to several media, investigators believe that the order could have come from Russia. A Moldovan couple, arrested after spraying a Star of David, said they had acted “on the orders of a third party and for remuneration, as evidenced by a conversation in Russian on their phone”, according to the public prosecutor of Moldova. Paris, Laure Beccuau. According to sources close to the matter, the alleged sponsor of these actions is Anatoliï Prizenko, a pro-Russian Moldovan businessman.