Thread by @BernardGrua

The case of the 🇷🇺film festival @UnivercineNant named «From Lviv to the Urals », planned in @katorza movie theater evidenced how difficult it is to counter the pro-Russian lobby, if not a pro-Putin one, in @NantesFr 🇫🇷. However, for our...1/10
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... nationals, it only impacted a small local circle of cinephiles and agents of influence. On the other side, it revealed a Nantes diaspora and a refugee community, both from #Ukraine 🇺🇦, unanimously shocked. It aroused general outrage in Ukraine... 2/10
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... where #Russia 🇷🇺, systematically commits #warcrimes. @MFA_Ukraine, @UKRinFRA, @UKRINFORM, @uacrisis, @EuromaidanPress. The press review (@OuestFrance @presseocean, @AnnAugie, @euradio_fr, @20Minutes, @FredericBrenon, @franceinfo, @France3tv... 3/10
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... #PhilippeGambert, @vescolano,@telenantesinfo) reveals that our media generally reacted naively and with a lack of healthy scepticism.
They shared an incomplete information, when it was not a misleading one. 4/10

However, we will keep, as a useful material for the future, the remarkable expert work from @locarp, @AurelianoTonet in @lemondefr newspaper. 5/10
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And we will remember from this case, that it is, indeed, @OuestFrance newspaper which gaved a salutary wake up call to the event partners by the publication of the letter from the #Lviv Mayor, @AndriySadovyi, and from its @lvivadm to @UnivercineNant . 6/10

A major question will nevertheless persist. It concerns the reason why the two letters from producer #DenisIvanov (Donbass) & the letter from the #UkrainianStateFilmAgency, @derg_kino, addressed to the @katorza movie theater, to @UnivercineNant and to @Johanna_Rolland,.. 7/10

... #Nantes mayor, were not presented by media. , whereas the Univerciné‘s barely credible «justifications» have been repeated over and over. While the quasi-conspiratorial allegations of @aymericseassau, Nantes Deputy Mayor, in charge of #culture, as well as those... 8/10

... of the Observatoire de la Liberté et de la Création, #OLC, @LDH_Fr,were relayed without questioning.
Is it because these three Ukrainian letters were formulated in English? Is it because, concerning #Ukraine, we prefer to rely on Russian or pro-Russian words? 9/10

@LDH_Fr @NTenzer, @GaliaAckerman, @a_goujon is it linked to an atavism, a form of intellectual laziness, even incompetence, or to informal links that have been in place for a long time and are resilient to the obvious human catastrophe in progress? 10/10
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