Yannick Jadot, candidate for Europe Ecolovie-Les Verts for the presidency, was the guest of 8:30 a.m. franceinfo, Thursday March 24. He answered questions from Sahlia Brakhlia and Marc Fauvelle.
War in Ukraine: Yannick Jadot “persists” and “accuses TotalEnergies of being an accomplice in war crimes”
“I confirm, I persist, I accuse TotalEnergies of being an accomplice in war crimes in Ukraine”assured Yannick Jadot, while the group announced that it had hired “defamation action” against him. “The Total group works with Russian partners who are closely linked to the highest summit of the Putinian state, Total knows perfectly well the war crimes that are perpetrated in Ukraine, Total knows perfectly well that, through its activities, it contributes to financing groups closely linked to this war and therefore it is called complicity in a war crime.“
Yannick Jadot also denounced “cynicism” by Patrick Pouyanné, the CEO of the group “who, sobs in his voice, talks to us about his employees but is angry about this war on behalf of his shareholders”. “I am angry on behalf of Ukrainian men and women who are victims of war atrocities”continued the environmentalist presidential candidate.
Yannick Jadot calls for rebuilding “a balance of power” with Vladimir Poutine without familiarity or invitation to Brégançon
“There can be no naivety, arrogance or complacency in dealing with Russia”has indicated Yannick Jadot, environmental candidate for the presidential election, Thursday March 24 on franceinfo. If he is elected president, he assured that he would cut off the Russian gas tap and that he would go to see Vladimir Putin, while specifying “that we are not obliged to shake his hand and above all, not as Emmanuel Macron does, to address him as familiarity”.
The environmental candidate was referring to a visit by the Russian head of state in August 2019. Yannick Jadot for his part promised that he “would play as a team” with the European Union, “in unity and firmness”that “we should have done from the beginning”.