Three French senators are asking questions about the Right Sector in Ukraine after inadvertently running into one of its events in Kiev. According to a publication called “Emerging Europe,” the three senators, Nathalie Goulet, Jean-Pierre Moga and Joel Guerriau, were wandering around the streets of Kiev on the last weekend in May on the occasion of the city’s annual birthday celebration when they ran into something quite different and macabre. “On Andrievskiy Descent, a scenic, historic road in central Kyiv, members of the Ukrainian far-right party Right Sector and its youth wing, Right Youth, put on a militaristic show for children,” Emerging Europe reports. “They invited kids to shoot from air rifles at a paper target of the Kremlin and at pictures of Colorado beetles (a derogatory term for Russians).” The three senators “did not like what they saw.”
On June 10, the delegation officially submitted a request to the French Foreign Ministry to “know what the position of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs [is] on this subject and what measures it intends to take to avoid the contagion of this deadly ideology.”
“The neo-Nazi parties are developing increasingly visible activities, including in the centre of Kyiv, with shooting ranges, practices of assembling and dismantling Kalashnikovs and recruitment offices for young people for militias that clearly claim Nazi ideology,” their joint letter read. The senators also claimed that they had seen pro-Nazi memorabilia being sold by Right Sector cadres, including identity papers of members of SS-Sonderkommando units.
