Baku involved children in campaign against Macron
Baku’s ongoing campaign against French President Emmanuel Macron has now drawn in Azerbaijan’s children, a group of whom were enlisted to sing a song on public television insulting him and accusing him of being dishonest and pro-Armenian, 1lurer reports.
The three-minute song, posted on the network’s Facebook page on October 18, features a presenter, Aziz Aliyev, singing along with a chorus of children.
“He is pro-Armenian,” Aliyev sings.
"What can you say to this person?
He gives us false promises
He dances with Pashinyan
He humiliated himself like this
Say - who is that person?”
The children in the chorus then respond, syllable-by-syllable. “EM-MAN-U-EL!”
In the three-minute song, Macron is accused of pro-Armenianism, dishonesty, falsehood, he is presented as an Islamophobe and a Turkophobe.
The French leader has become a popular punching bag in Azerbaijan following comments he made in an October 12 television interview accusing Azerbaijan of launching “a terrible war” in 2020 to retake territories it had lost to Armenians in the first war between the two sides in the 1990s. Macron also said that Azerbaijan launched the attacks that started the escalation in fighting in September.
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