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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Tom Watling

Macron rubbishes cocaine train claims: ‘Fake news spread by France’s enemies’

Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz speak on a train to Kyiv - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

France has shut down a wild conspiracy peddled by the Russian foreign ministry that Europe’s leaders, including Sir Keir Starmer, were doing cocaine together on a train into Ukraine.

The claims centre on a video in which French president Emmanuel Macron picks up a white tissue from a table and German chancellor Friedrich Merz retrieves a coffee stirrer. Sir Keir is seen smiling on the opposite side of the table.

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