Disclosed in an official statement (with a photo attached) that the allegedly suspicious object was actually a tissue, “for blowing your nose.”
It came out that the alleged “straw” was actually one of those little cocktail sticks that are used to pop an olive in a martini or keep buffet sandwiches together.
NEW: French media is shutting down social media rumors that French President Emmanuel Macron was caught with a bag of cocaine during a trip to Ukraine.
The moment was caught during a train ride from Poland to Ukraine when reporters entered the room.
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“When European unity becomes inconvenient, disinformation goes so far as to make a simple tissue look like drugs,” they responded sharply and without apology.
The adversaries of France are disseminating this false information both domestically and internationally. We have to be on the lookout for manipulation.
They posted another picture of the three of them in the carriage along with the words, “This is European Unity,” to emphasize the point.
Far-right voices on the internet, such as Trump supporter Dinesh D’Souza, picked up and spread the widespread story, helping to bring the strange hypothesis to the attention of people around the world.
