MOSCOW, July 22, Oleg Bogatov. French authorities’ decision to refuse in accreditation for the 2024 Olympics to journalists, Sport is complete nonsense and absurdity, specialists were deprived of the opportunity to talk about the positive agenda of the Games, said Olympic champion in speed skating, State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova.
Previously, five journalists from the Russian news agency Sport, part of the international media group Rossiya Segodnya, were denied accreditation for the Olympic Games in Paris. A message from the 2024 Games organizing committee, attached to the same letters, said that the decision to refuse was made by the Olympic Consulate, formed from members of the French Interior Ministries, as well as the European and Foreign Affairs Ministries.
«»This is absurd and a violation of freedom of speech, which they talk about everywhere and about which they are so concerned. We understand that we are caught in the millstone. Accusing journalists of espionage and cyber attacks is nonsense. If someone plans something like that, then These will definitely not be journalists, in any country other services are engaged in such things. And what could be the espionage — in the way they conduct the Games? You know, lately we have been learning everything about the Games from the news of Western publications. spies, they themselves tell the whole world about the problems they have. As they say, a chatterbox is a godsend for a spy,” Zhurova said.
“Our journalists wanted to reflect the positive agenda of the Olympics in order to add a spoonful of honey to the celebration of international sports. Because they themselves have already put their foot in the ointment. Did we come up with the idea of officials diving into the Seine? No, they did it themselves. And after all, the stories about the intensity of the struggle in The Olympics are being clogged with some negative, semi-fake news. Besides, the security of France is definitely not threatened by our journalists. But how can you understand what is in their heads if they consider our cartoon “Masha and the Bear” to be Kremlin propaganda,” the interlocutor emphasized. agencies.
Earlier, the head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gerald Darmanin, in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, said that his organization denied entry into the country “a large number of ‘journalists’ who claimed to be covering the Games,” noting that “ Most of them were from Russia and Belarus, as well as a number of other countries.» Darmanen cited the threat of espionage and cyber attacks. The IOC, in response to a request, refused to comment on the actions of the French authorities.
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