Departure of French companies from Russia: “Let’s not comfort the dictator Putin by causing misery and unemployment”, warns Fabien Roussel

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For the PCF candidate for the Elysée, one must think of the consequences that such a withdrawal would have for Russian employees: “I would not like it to radicalize the Russians and weld them around Putin”.

“Let’s not comfort dictator Putin by proving him right if tomorrow everyone leaves, causing misery and unemployment there”warned Fabien Roussel, PCF candidate for the presidential election, this Tuesday on franceinfo. “I wouldn’t want it to radicalize the Russians and unite them around Putin.”

The pressure is growing against French companies who have decided to stay in Russia after more than a month of war in Ukraine. This is the case of the Mulliez group, which has Auchan, Decathlon and Leroy Merlin in its fold in particular. Some voices in Ukraine are calling for a boycott of these brands.

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But for Fabien Roussel, “It’s an extremely difficult decision”because “we are not at war with the Russian people. We are at war with Putin. I differentiate between the Russian people and Putin, and therefore the consequences for a group like Mulliez to leave Russia would have harsh consequences for Russians , many Russian employees”he explains.

According to him, it is necessary “to measure the consequences for the wallet of the French, to measure the usefulness for the Ukrainian people, but also to measure the effects on the Russian people”underlines the PCF presidential candidate. “How? ‘Or’ What [ces groupes] can they leave without creating in Russia and among those people, those families, those workers, anger, hatred, resentment against France?he asks himself.


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