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Asked this Wednesday about the French weapons sent to Ukraine, the deputy La France Insoumise of Seine-Saint-Denis Alexis Corbière seems to have said a little too much on the set of FranceInfo. ” There is few of it. You talk about French weapons, frankly it’s bulletproof vests and a few anti-tank missiles…”, he said. However, these details are supposed to remain confidential, the French army refusing to communicate on the subject.
Obviously uncomfortable with journalists who pointed out to him that this information was classified as a defense secret, Alexis Corbière tried to catch up. “I sit on the Defense and Army Committee. (…) I don’t know but it may look like that, he repeated. Anyway, it’s up to the French government to tell you things. »
Did he reveal elements that should not have come out of the National Assembly? If parliamentarians are subject to a duty of confidentiality imposing not to betray to the general public information that falls under military defense secrets, it is impossible to say in the state where Alexis Corbière got these elements, released in the press these last hours.
The MP also made it his line of defense after the show. “According to journalists, I would have violated the defense secret. False, he reacted on Twitter. Moreover, no parliamentarian is empowered top secret. I do not have access to any confidential information. The Elysée, the high command have spoken. Read the press, like me! “As a link, an article from Europe 1 evoking the nature of the weapons that France would have actually provided to Ukraine.
Attacked by Fabien Roussel, the communist presidential candidate, who accused him of “communicating secret-defense information”, Alexis Corbière then repeated that he had only relayed information read in the media. “What I said this morning was banal already in the press. I don’t have any information top secretand you should know…”
Still, France is careful to keep all information about its arms deliveries to Ukraine secret. At the most Paris had declared at the end of February to participate in “the additional delivery of defensive equipment to the Ukrainian authorities, as well as fuel support”. The European Union had for its part indicated that it would send 450 million euros to Ukraine so that it had “lethal weapons, as well as fuel, protective equipment and medical supplies”.
“Not responsible”, according to Gabriel Attal
Asked about the subject this Wednesday morning, the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, severely tackled Alexis Corbière. “If we made this choice in responsibility not to communicate in public matters on the equipment, it is for a good reason”, he declared during a press point. “We consider that to communicate on what we send to Ukraine, (…) is to communicate to Russia what is lacking in Ukraine in this war”, he also pointed out.
Gabriel Attal also detailed the way in which parliamentarians are made aware of the Ukrainian file. Last week, a closed meeting was held with the Defense Committee of the National Assembly where the director of communication of the Minister for the Armed Forces informed the participants of the list of equipment provided. “That a deputy member of this commission allows himself to relay information communicated within the framework of this meeting, it is not responsible, denounced Attal. Moreover, it is done under conditions of sustained lightness and approximation. I call for accountability. The safety of Ukrainians is at stake. »
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov also made a similar appeal in the morning. “I ask you not to share information regarding arms deliveries from other countries to ours,” he wrote on Twitter.