You have lost, Mr Putin
Speech at the Place de la Bastille during the demonstration in support of Ukraine, on March 5, 2022
You have lost, Mr Putin
You are unbeatable, Mr Putin, unbeatable in killing and lying.
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Category: VERBATIM
You have lost, Mr Putin
Oh sure, you will still kill, destroy, sow grief and disaster, but you have already lost because empires cannot be rebuilt, believe this from a Frenchman, and you cannot return to that absolutism of which you dream so much, believe this, too, from a Frenchman.
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Do not worry, Mr Putin, we only want peace
We must be able to see our successes. Not in order to humiliate anyone, and even less to get drunk on it, but let’s do it in order to finally become aware of our strength.
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Let us move even faster towards a common European defence
It is not that he has become a humanist and respectful of borders. None of us, of course, would be naïve enough to believe that this is the reason why Mr Putin said yesterday that some of his troops were returning to their barracks and that there was still room and time for diplomacy, but then why did he put his foot on the brake?
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From the heir of Peter the Great to the heir of Ivan the Terrible
Intervention in the plenary session on the “Continued repression of civil society and human rights defenders in Russia: the case of the human rights organisation Memorial”
Madam President, my dear colleagues, this movement that Mr Putin wants to muzzle was the first ray of sunshine of the perestroika. I will never forget the first meetings organised by Memorial with former Gulag prisoners who were reunited, who looked at each other, whose tears began to flow and who said in a weak voice: “It’s you, it’s really you”. Yes, they were the survivors.
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