Factcheck: Was cocaine on the table in Macron video with Starmer, Merz?

Factcheck: Was cocaine on the table in Macron video with Starmer, Merz?

Photos of European leaders falsely suggest drugs; official clarifies item was tissue amid Russian disinformation claims.

Dominic Frisby: “Maybe Emmanuel Macron was on the Coke.”

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The French government is accusing its opponents of spreading fake news about French President Macron and other European leaders using cocaine. Yesterday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova and the head of the country's investment fund, Kirill Dmitriev, shared photos of Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on a train to Kyiv last weekend. Macron is seen removing a white tissue from a t…

If for Kremlin propaganda to invade a democratic country by force is “denazify”, a toothpick can be a strip of cocaine. At least that’s what happened last Saturday, when Frenchman Emmanuel Macron, British Keir Starmer and German Friedrich Merz posed for cameras on the train linking Poland to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, where Volodimir Zelenski was waiting for them to pressure Russia into a 30-day truce. In a video published by various media, th…