Statement by Emmanuel Macron, President of France, on April 14, 2022 regarding the necessary qualifications to label an event as genocide

Excerpt from the interview made with President Macron on the radio channel “France Bleu” on April 14, 2022

Macron: (…) Le mot de génocide a un sens et le mot de génocide aujourd'hui doit être qualifié par des juristes, pas par des politiques. (The word genocide has a meaning and the word genocide today must be qualified by jurists, not by politicians.)