00:00No, France is not sending its toxic waste to Moldova.
00:07Moldova's pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity secured a win in the country's parliamentary elections on the 28th of September.
00:15The elections were marred with Russian-backed disinformation, such as one false claim alleging that France paid Moldova to dispose of toxic waste from a site known as Stockholm.
00:25In reality, French authorities have issued a decree to confine and seal off 42,000 tons of waste inside this former mine, located in the French region of Alsace.
00:35Despite this, the decision was twisted to claim the waste will be transferred to Moldova,
00:40taking the form of a fake news report on social media, which appears to have an AI-generated voiceover.
00:46According to MDPA documents, the waste will be sealed in specialized containers and transported to a new storage facility outside the city of Rosina,
00:53right next to another French-owned company that contributes to environmental pollution in the region.
00:58The fake report claims that French President Emmanuel Macron discussed toxic waste solutions during his trip to Kissenau in August.
01:05While the report suggests it accessed documents from 30 August 2025, which provide for the transfer of the waste to Moldova,
01:13Stockholm's management confirmed to Euroverify that this is fake news.
01:16The site's management added that the document featured in the video is a falsified version of a real document from 2016, which makes no mention of Moldova.
01:26The confinement of waste at the Stockholm site has been contested,
01:30with scientists raising concerns about the toxic waste seeping into the Upper Rhine, which is on the Franco-German border and key for Europe.
01:37Building on this, the fake report claims that the French waste will be transferred to a site located close to the Nista River,
01:43which is one of Moldova's main water sources.
01:46The report takes an extract from an interview given by a scientist to broadcaster France 24
01:51to make it look like he's talking about Moldova.
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