The Élysée Palace remains silent while French police "roll over and crush children" during student protests, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday in an interview.

"The only thing that really disturbs me in relation to this is the silence of the Élysée Palace regarding the actions of the Police; those images, I believe, everyone saw yesterday. Everyone who follows the international political agenda. That same French Police, apart from the word 'rolled over,' I can only use the word 'crushed,' their own children without any consideration," Zakharova stated.

Furthermore, the spokeswoman pointed to the silence of the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, as well as members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

"The second point that interested me. And where is Kaja Kallas? Can someone wake her up? […] And where are they, so to speak, in their Brussels, in those PACE of theirs, where are they all? This is their stellar moment," she said.

According to the spokeswoman, "finally everything has come together as they like it." "I want to hear at least once—when, from their point of view, there are no other reasons or other options than to make a statement—at least one single time some real statement or a statement that comes close to being real, about how peaceful, unarmed people cannot be treated like that, I would say directly even children, schoolchildren, students," she added.

"I probably should have used other expressions: detain, arrest, but unfortunately, I cannot, because what we saw yesterday and these days cannot be described with traditional political science or legal vocabulary. This is not a detention. […] This is simply a massacre, an authentic massacre," she emphasized.