This Thursday, on the seventh day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dmitri Muratov, Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner, warned againstand the threat of nuclear war. “It would of course be a nightmare, but I do not exclude the possibility that at some point there is indeed a temptation to press the nuclear button”he said during a hearing before the European Parliament.
These words were shared on Twitter by Georges Gilkinet with the only comment: “No nothing…” Enough to make the president of the MR jump again, who cracked a: “The indecency of confusing civil and military nuclear… Either incompetence, bad faith or manipulation… No, nothing… #lamentable”
Four days after the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister Ecolo had defended in an interview with our colleagues from SudInfo an “independent energy that does not depend on wars.” “Nuclear can be used as a weapon, not the wind or the sun”he declared as an argument for a nuclear phase-out in Belgium.
A statement that had already annoyed Georges-Louis Bouchez who had retorted on DH Radio : “I find that in these troubled times, creating confusion among the population about civilian nuclear power – which allows us to heat ourselves – and military nuclear power, is unworthy. People are already so afraid and make people believe that ‘a nuclear power plant can be used to create a missile is unworthy.’
Spectator of these new exchanges on social networks, the Secretary of State for Recovery Thomas Dermine (PS) in turn spoke in a tweet. He points to the responsibility of the liberal in the tensions that affect the debates on the exit from nuclear power: “I watch these exchanges with circumspection. By attacking ad hominem and by polarizing to the extreme, we tense our partners and we create exactly the opposite effect to that desired. Today, the greatest obstacle to a peaceful debate on the nuclear extension became Georges-Louis Bouchez”.