This is called a backpedal.
The actor Gérard Depardieu, who has repeatedly praised Vladimir Poutine, denounced this Thursday "the crazy unacceptable excesses" of the latter.
"The Russian people are not responsible for the crazy unacceptable excesses of their leaders like Vladimir Putin," said the sacred monster of French cinema in a press release.
“All of the proceeds from the three concerts that I give at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (…) will go to the Ukrainian victims of this tragic fratricidal war”, added the actor who must perform from April 1 to 3 at the TCE, in Paris. , where he will sing songs by Barbara, of whom he was a close friend.
“I've always had a singular penchant for the Russian people so well described by Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Pasternak and so many other artists… Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich”, he insisted on recalling.
On March 1, Gérard Depardieu had already called for "stop arms and negotiate", on the sixth day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Russia and Ukraine have always been brother countries.
I am against this fratricidal war.
I say:
Stop the guns and negotiate!
“, he had indicated.
Depardieu, who has French and Russian nationalities, obtained a Russian passport in January 2013, amid disagreement with President François Hollande's tax policy.
"I find it normal to pay, but not to idiots who think they are doing good," he said in 2014 to the weekly Le Point.
Since then, Gérard Depardieu has never ceased to praise his new homeland, Russia, a "great democracy", and to praise Vladimir Putin, whom he notably compared to Pope John Paul II.
