France summons Russian envoy over ‘unacceptable’ tweets

France’s foreign ministry says it had summoned the Russian ambassador to protest “unacceptable” tweets issued by the embassy in Paris showing crude cartoons depicting Europe and the United States.

“These publications are unacceptable,” a ministry spokesperson says after two tweets, now deleted, that depicted kneeling Europeans licking the buttocks of a man dressed as Uncle Sam, and another showing two doctors wearing American and EU insignia injecting Europe with syringes marked “Russophobia,” “Neo-Nazism” and “Sanctions.”

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