A French citizen criticized the way the events in Kazakhstan have been covered in international media outlets. Airline pilot Francois Camarroque, who has been living in Kazakhstan for four years, says that the French media's interpretation was strikingly different from real events. He knows this because he himself witnessed the January events in Almaty.
Camarroque noted that Kazakh law enforcement officers did not shoot at demonstrators, and peaceful protests were replaced by a real terrorist attack that killed both civilians and security forces. Meanwhile, foreign journalists, without the slightest fact-checking, have been spreading disinformation, Camarroque added. In his YouTube video address, he expressed gratitude to the people of Kazakhstan, noting that during the state of emergency, people in the country had come together and helped each other.
In general, as he emphasizes, the Kazakh people are known to be cultured and incredibly generous.
“I am fed up with disinformation in Europe, because it was a disinformation. A couple of medias they said that in Kazakhstan the police kill the citizen. Not at all. It means that those journalists are not informed at all to say that. They don’t have a clue what’s going on here. What I know is those manifestation were pacific. And there were a couple of people who start to be really aggressive and to kill. And kill in the barbaric manner. It is the certain people who start to shoot police. Steal guns. So the police, of course, defend themselves,” said Francois Camarroque, a pilot.
Translation by Assem Zhanmukhanova
Editing by Saule Mukhamejanova
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