France condemns Russian decision to revoke Le Monde journalist accreditation

PARIS (Reuters) – France condemns the Russian decision to revoke accreditation for a Le Monde journalist, a spokesman for the French foreign ministry said on Thursday.

Russia said earlier on Thursday it had withdrawn the accreditation for Le Monde’s Moscow correspondent Benjamin QuĂ©nelle, in retaliation for Paris’s refusal to issue a visa to a Russian reporter. This will leave the paper without a presence in Moscow for the first time since the 1950s.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Makini Brice)