Pro-Russian campaign to influence the 2024 European Parliament elections in France, 2023
Reportedon one origin only: 1 distinct origin, 1 tied to no party.
The dataset records a pro-Russian campaign led by a former French member of the European Parliament to influence the 2024 European elections, which the dataset, citing Le Monde, says French intelligence services investigated. It codes the incident as influence operation, apparent goal compromise domestic / EU politics; disrupt (military) aid to Ukraine, target politician(s), location France; the dataset records it as running from September 2023 to 2023-12-31, and the date shown is the start of that period. The Leiden dataset includes incidents linked to Russia by officials, incidents fitting a pattern of officially suspected attacks, or incidents backed by journalistic evidence, and its authors call the data speculative and subject to change.
- When
- 1 September 2023
- Where
- France, France
- What
- other
- Acting party
- Government of Russia
- Attribution
- Attributed by independent sources. Listed as a Russian operation in the Leiden University Russian Operations Against Europe dataset; the dataset links the incident to Russia, citing a source this draft could not open (see gaps).
- In the record
- Published 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC · revision 1 · leiden
Sources
History
| When | Field | From | To | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC | status | null | reported | P1 leiden: researched from cited sources and graded by the one rule |
Cite or reuse
The War Record, "Pro-Russian campaign to influence the 2024 European Parliament elections in France, 2023", ev-20261027-64d7, revision 1, https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-64d7/