When contacted by The Daily Beast about the British plan, Yevgeny Prigozhin said that he found it “extremely unpleasant” that the leaders of France and Britain had united to “conspire” against Wagner.
On Tuesday, France’s National Assembly unanimously voted to formally designate Wagner a terrorist entity, with the resolution calling on the European Union as a whole to follow suit. Then on Wednesday morning,reported that Britain was similarly set to declare the mercenary force a terrorist organization, with a U.K. government source telling the newspaper that the declaration is “imminent” and could be enacted within weeks.
Prigozhin quipped that he found it “extremely unpleasant” that the leaders of France and Britain had united to “conspire” against Wagner. “I’m very disappointed,” he said, before going on to offer his own “advice” to Western leaders. Separately, he said Wagner should not be deemed a terrorist group because, according to him, they abide by the laws of the Russian Federation and are acting on behalf of the government.
On Tuesday, French lawmaker Benjamin Haddad accused Wagner of spreading “instability and violence” wherever they operate. “They kill and torture. They massacre and pillage. They intimidate and manipulate with almost total impunity,” Haddad said. He added that the group is not solely motivated by an “appetite for money” but a broader strategy “from Mali to Ukraine of supporting the aggressive policies of President [Vladimir] Putin’s regime towards our democracies.
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