According to the Frenchman, he came to Ukraine with a humanitarian mission to help women, children, and Ukrainian refugees.
There is no data confirming that he actually was in Bucha on his Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, although he had been using these platforms quite actively before. Despite this fact, in his media appearances, Adrien Bocquet claims he has obtained “hundreds of videos of war crimes committed by the Ukrainian military.”
Not a single video or photo has yet been published or handed over to French law enforcement, which is directly involved in the Bucha war crime investigation.
We reached out to Adrien Bocquet for a comment, via his Instagram account, but he never returned our inquiry as of the time this story was published.
France’s BFM.TV aired several photos that allegedly confirm Adrien Bocquet’s visit to Ukraine as part of a humanitarian mission. These photos show on the background a van that with the logo of the Sheptytsky Hospital Charity Foundation, which is actually located in Lviv.
In order to find out how long Adrien has been working with the organization and what exactly he was doing there, we turned to the Foundation chief, Andriy Lohin.
Lohin told StopFake that Adrien Bocquet had visited the Charity’s branch in #Lviv only twice and never systematically worked with them. During both visits, Adrien arrived unannounced, using private transport, bringing some packages of humanitarian aid. Adrien made his private visits alongside several people accompanying him at lunchtime on April 4 and at about midnight on April 6. At the same time, according to Andriy Lohin, no one could speak with Adrian and his companions as the they all spoke only French (although in his interviews, Adrien Bocquet claims that he understands both Russian and Ukrainian a little, thanks to which he allegedly found out what the “Ukrainian Nazis with the Azov Regiment were chatting about in Bucha).
His story, which is shared over and over again in the studios of French media outlets, contains clear signs of Russian propaganda clichés. The details of the story are also confusing as they contradict the objective timeline of what was happening in the Ukrainian town of Bucha throughout April. Anyone who followed the events of the war in Ukraine even superficially would notice this. However, the French broadcasters seem to be listening to his story with interest, without asking any detailed questions.