Macron accuses Musk of supporting “new reactionary international movement”

French President Emmanuel Macron accused Elon Musk this Monday of supporting a “new reactionary international movement”.

“Ten years ago, who would have imagined that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would be supporting a new international reactionary movement and intervening directly in elections, including in Germany”, said Emmanuel Macron, during a meeting with French ambassadors.

Emmanuel Macron, who did not mention the name of the owner of the social network X (formerly Twitter), has cultivated a relationship with Elon Musk in recent years. In 2023, he welcomed the richest man in the world to the Élysée Palace and, more recently, invited him to the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral.

The French President joined a chorus of criticism from leaders of European countries towards the man who will lead the Government Efficiency Department of the new Trump Administration, which takes office on the 20th of this month.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre finds it worrying that a man with as much power as Elon Musk is “directly involved in the internal affairs” of other countries.

“This is not how things should be between democracies and allies”, stressed the head of the Norwegian Government.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer also accused billionaire Elon Musk this Monday of “spreading lies and disinformation” and of supporting a far-right activist currently detained in response to accusations against the Labor Government.

“Those who are spreading lies and disinformation as far as possible are not interested in the victims,” ​​he said in response to journalists’ questions about Musk’s comments made in recent days.

The prime minister denounced what he considers to be a strategy of “increasing intimidation and threats of violence, hoping that the media will amplify them”.

Musk, who is an advisor to US President-elect Donald Trump, called the Under Secretary of State responsible for Protection and Violence Against Women and Girls, Jess Phillips, an “apologist for the genocide of rape” and an “evil witch” and suggested that she should be prey.

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The Secretary of State recently refused a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Oldham, on the outskirts of Manchester, between 2011 and 2014, and argued that the council should commission a local inquiry, as happened in Rotherham and Telford.

In publications in recent days on the social network X, which he owns, Musk repeated several times requests from British reformist and conservative deputies for a national survey to be carried out, despite the previous conservative government having refused a similar request in 2022.

A report published at the time concluded that local public services failed to protect children, but that there was no cover-up regarding the predominantly Pakistani criminals.

Musk also targeted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for, he said, failing to bring what many call “rape gangs” to justice when he was Attorney General at the Public Prosecution Service between 2008 and 2013.

The scandals, Musk claimed on Friday, represent a “huge crime against humanity.”

Musk also defended the release of far-right activist Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who was imprisoned for contempt of court in Britain.

“Those who are defending Tommy Robinson are not interested in justice. They are supporting a man who went to prison for almost breaking up a sexual harassment case, a gang sexual harassment case,” Starmer stated.

Source: rr.sapo.pt