French ambassador blasts Imedi hoax report on Russian invasion | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “France’s ambassador to Georgia on Tuesday criticized as ‘irresponsible’ a bogus report about Russian invasion of Georgia recently aired by Georgian television.
The Imedi TV channel sparked panic in Georgia on Saturday with a broadcast that said Russian tanks had invaded the capital and the country’s president was dead. The report used footage from the August 2008 conflict with Russia, and the French ambassador was also shown in the broadcast.
‘I was very surprised to see my image used in a wrong context,’ Eric Fournier said in a statement addressed to Imedi head, Georgy Arveladze.”