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The Kremlin organized protests in Europe to quarrel the EU, Turkey and Ukraine - "dossier"
Russia is probably involved in the organization of several protests against Turkey in Paris. In the Kremlin, it could be hoped that this will help to warm up the conflict between the EU and Ankara, as well as discredit the Ukrainian diaspora. This is stated in a joint investigation of the Center "Dossier", DR, Expressen, Le Monde, NRK, SYDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, SVT and Westdeutscher Rundfunk.
According to journalists, with the help of paid shares, the Kremlin tried to " quarrel Turkey and its NATO allies ," as well as " discredit Ukraine ." It is reported that the Russian security forces "inspired" the burning of the Qur'an in Stockholm opposite the Turkish embassy. Soon, the Turkish Foreign Ministry called the share of a violation of agreements on Sweden membership in NATO. As part of another demonstration, the leader of the Pegida movement Edwin Wagensweld also broke the holy book of Muslims near the building of the Netherlands parliament.
Soon after these shares, the Russian special services invited the Kremlin to " hold several similar events " that would be directed against Turkey. For example, a group of about five "activists" could wipe their legs on the country's flag and burn the portrait of Erdogan in the Netherlands. It was expected that the videos with a Perfoman would be distracted by the Turkish media and publish in local social networks. It was also proposed to apply stencil inscriptions with Erdogan’s insults in the EU: in Paris, Hague, Brussels and Frankfurt.
"According to the intelligence services, at night, dozens of migrants with stencils and balloons with aerosol paint should have made the maximum possible number of inscriptions in the most popular city places, and in the morning all European media would write about this," the investigation said.
At the same time, it is noted that some of the shares still managed to carry out. In early spring, the Kremlin prepared a report on the incidents on March 5 in Paris on Saint-Pierre Square on Montmartre. Early in the morning, five people who pretended to be Ukrainians hung an anti -Turkish banner with the inscription " Erdogan, an earthquake - this is a retribution for Russian tourists " and shouted " Stop Erdogan! " The “dossier” suggests that the “ members of the Ukrainian community ” should have demonstrated indignation by the fact that Turkey still has not closed the entrance for citizens of the Russian Federation. After 40 minutes, the banner was removed by police officers.
The Turkish flag was also burned in the city and applied 105 stencil inscriptions like “Stop Islam”, “Stop Erdogan” and “Alanya Next”. France counterintelligence officers told reporters that they knew about the operation of Russian special services, but refused to provide details. Sources say that Russian special services are trying to " use real tension in the hybrid war, which, for example, already exists between Turkey " and the EU.
Publications about incidents appeared on YouTube, Facebook and Tiktok. At the same time, the Kremlin employees reported on the general coverage of the audience of 100 thousand people. The "dossier" believes that this indicator is overstated: posts commented on bots with empty pages, and all the videos scored 15 thousand views.
Journalists found several accounts, presumably real people who published news about anti -Turkish actions. One of them, judging by the open data and the base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, lived in Russia, although Algeria indicates as his country. The man has a Russian number. Also in 2020 he was enrolled at the university in St. Petersburg.
It is noted that at the end of last year he created several posts on Facebook with announcements of work in Paris, Brussels and Madrid. Applicants were offered to receive 80-100 euros per day for " several photographs ." Another "activist" from Morocco published similar videos on YouTube. After the issues of journalists, they began to threaten that they would complain about the embassies of their countries, and then removed their accounts from social networks.