The French television channel France 24 has refuted false claims alleging that France secretly transported nuclear waste to Armenia.
In a report prepared by the channel, correspondent Catalina Marchant de Abreu emphasized that the disinformation, which quickly went viral on social media, is entirely false.
“The publication appeared on June 26 and began circulating the same day. It was viewed more than 2.1 million times on the X platform alone,” she said. She said that the claim alleged that the French company Orano, which operates in the nuclear energy sector, needed a new nuclear waste storage site and had chosen Armenia for this purpose. It even claimed that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan allegedly accepted "a shady French donation" of 1.6 million euros, sacrificing a national park, wildlife, and public health for profit.
She noted that users widely shared the fake story, which included a video narrated in French by a voiceover with a pronounced accent, which is not characteristic of professional journalistic standards.
When asked by the TV presenter how the fake news originated, the correspondent explained that the initial publication appeared on June 25 on a French-language website called Courriere France 24.
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