Kremlin: Unacceptable denial of accreditation to Russian journalists for the Olympic Games

The French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, stated earlier that a little less than a hundred people from Russia, Belarus and other countries whose goal, he claims, was to "disrupt the Games", and who presented themselves as "journalists, technical staff, physiotherapists "

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Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov considered the denial of accreditation for five sports journalists of the Russian news agency Ria Novosti to cover the Olympic Games in Paris, which begin on Friday, as unacceptable.

"We believe that this decision is unacceptable and that it violates the freedom of the media," Peskov told reporters.

The news agency Ria Novosti announced earlier that the organizing committee of the Olympic Games refused to issue accreditation to five of their journalists.

The agency states that they received a decision from that committee rejecting the requests for accreditation after consultations with the competent administrative body in accordance with the French "internal security code", which issued an "unfavorable opinion".

Candidates for volunteers at the Olympic Games from Russia and Belarus also experienced a similar rejection, for security reasons, at the beginning of May.

The French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, stated earlier that a little less than a hundred people from Russia, Belarus and other countries whose goal, he claims, was to "disrupt the Games", and who presented themselves as "journalists, technical staff, physiotherapists ".

"For example, we rejected a large number of 'journalists' who said they were coming to cover the Games. On the other hand, we accepted the arrival of Russians working for the International Olympic Committee. We applied preventive principles," said Darmanin.

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