The editor-in-chief of the Russian public television channel RT France, Ksenia Federova, has announced the end of the media outlet’s activity as a result of the blocking of its accounts.
«The channel’s accounts have been blocked at the request of the General Treasury Department of the French Ministry of Economy and Finance,» Federova explained Saturday in a message posted on Twitter. «Our channel cannot continue its activities,» she has indicated.
The channel’s website has published a statement explaining that these measures make it impossible for the medium to operate and stresses that 123 French workers have been left without jobs, of which 77 are journalists with press cards.
«After five years of tenacious struggle, the authorities have achieved their goal, the closure of RT France,» the television station said in its statement.
«The closure of RT France and the deafening silence of other French media and journalists is only the first in a series of very dangerous steps, because after our channel they will go after other media,» it argued.
Last Thursday the newspaper ‘Le Monde’ reported the blocking of RT France’s accounts and the Russian Foreign Ministry announced retaliatory measures against French media in Russia.
The Russian public television RT and the news agency Sputnik have been banned from broadcasting in the EU since March 2022 and the judicial appeals filed in this regard have not been successful.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
