This spring at the Salon des Batailles in the Hôtel de Crillon, Nicolas Lerner, head of French intelligence, asked me to ban conservative voices in #Romania ahead of elections. I refused. We didn’t block protesters in Russia, #Belarus, or Iran. We won’t start doing it in #Europe.

Nicolas Lerner, the head of #France’s foreign intelligence — who asked me to silence conservative voices on Telegram in #Romania ahead of its elections (and later tried to deny it) — visited Romania just two days before the vote, official sources told journalist tuca_ro

“We will do everything on the ground to ensure that the next Romanian president is pro-European,” said Macron’s closest ally and key party member Valérie Hayer to France Info on May 10, 2025. So what did the head of French intelligence do in Romania a few days after this promise?