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Presidential: targeted by a defamation complaint, Jadot accuses Total of wanting to "silence" him

2022-03-24T11:28:11.670Z


Attacked in defamation by TotalEnergies for having described him as an “accomplice in war crimes” of Russia in Ukraine, the candidate eco


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The ecologist Yannick Jadot "confirms", "persists" and "accuses": TotalEnergies is "accomplice in war crimes in Ukraine", he again denounced on France info Thursday morning, considering that the tanker wanted the " to silence" in the middle of the presidential campaign, the day after the announcement by the group of lawsuits for defamation after its accusations.

I accuse @TotalEnergies of being complicit in war crimes in Ukraine.


#Total knows perfectly well the war crimes perpetrated by Russia, knows that its activities are financing Putin's war in Ukraine.


#8h30franceinfo pic.twitter.com/YOqJ28234G

— Yannick Jadot (@yjadot) March 24, 2022

"Total wants to silence me in the middle of the presidential election campaign", accused the candidate on the public service channel, while the group announced on Wednesday that it was taking "defamation action without delay" against him after Yannick Jadot's "unacceptable", "extremely serious and unfounded" comments on the group's presence in Russia.

"For 30 years the threats of lobbies have never ceased"

"These lobbies that run the country, that's enough," added the candidate, lambasting the CEO of TotalEnergies Patrick Pouyanné "who intends to dictate energy policy to France, who comments on the presidential campaign".

"For 30 years, threats from lobbies have never stopped (...), I was spied on by EDF, now I have a legal attack from Total", but "the environmentalists will not back down", he said. he insisted, still considering that it will be necessary “to clean up the conflicts of interest between the private sector and the general interest”.

Total wants to silence me, in the middle of the presidential campaign?



I've been doing ecology for 30 years, we've always had threats from lobbies.

I was spied on by EDF, now Total is suing me?



Environmentalists will not back down.

#8h30franceinfo pic.twitter.com/XIsY5sujSl

— Yannick Jadot (@yjadot) March 24, 2022

The environmental candidate, who therefore accuses the French oil company of being "an accomplice in war crimes", says that he is relying on article 25 of the statutes of the International Criminal Court and on the fact that, according to him, the group has "knowledge facts", since he "works with Russian partners very close to the highest summit of the Putinian state", and that "through his activities he contributes to financing groups very linked to this war".

Jadot denounces "the absolute cynicism" of the CEO of Total

Yannick Jadot denounced "the absolute cynicism" of Patrick Pouyanné who, "sobs in his voice, talks to us about his employees", but is in fact "angry on behalf of his shareholders".

“He talks about his employees and the fighters in Ukraine, but the only way to help these Ukrainian fighters (…) is to embargo Russian gas and oil,” repeated the candidate.

Read alsoRussian gas: why turning your back on Moscow is so complicated

“We cannot look at the bombardments of pediatric hospitals, theaters, the major humanitarian crisis and say

to ourselves by the end of the year I will make a small gesture

 ”, he insisted.

Total announced on Tuesday the cessation of all purchases of Russian oil or petroleum products “by the end of 2022 at the latest”.

Source: leparis

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