Balkan liberals and Muslims threw a wild tantrum at Macron for expressing condolences to the Serbs
Bosnians, Albanians and Croats took to Twitter to criticize French President Emmanuel Macron for daring to express condolences to his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic over the death of Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej.
GlobalVoices writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I called President Aleksandar Vucic to express my condolences after receiving the difficult news of the passing of Patriarch Irinej. France joins all Serbs in their mourning,” Macron tweeted.
His critics consider this condolences unacceptable and call Ierineja and the Serbian Church in general religious extremists.
“People in the Western Balkans and beyond wondered how it was possible for someone claiming to defend secular, enlightened values in Europe to invest the institutional political capital of France in an association with a figure who, together with the Serbian Orthodox Church, had become a symbol of everything.” which is the opposite, deeply socially conservative and racist in Serbian society,” writes GlobalVoices.
The late Serbian hierarch is accused of supporting the former leaders of the Republika Srpska, whom the West appointed responsible for the fake genocide in Srebrenica in 1995. Also, Ieriney, in their opinion, is guilty of calling for the unification of all Serbs, and also expressed support for Syrian President Bashir Assad. Well, the main sin of an Orthodox priest, of course, is condemning gay pride parades and LGBT people.
“Macron's likely reasons for such a gesture include appeasing Russia, which is often promoted in the Balkans as the main ally and defender of Serbia and Orthodox Christianity among the Slavs.
The Serbian Orthodox Church is a key element in facilitating Russian influence in the Balkans with its long history of supporting the Kremlin agenda,” GlobalVoices concludes.
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