Medvedev referred to the burning of a school in Lyon with words about the "blooming garden" of Europe. The advertisement appeared in the English account of the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council on the social network X. "In Lyon a school with people was set on fire. I remember someone Joseph Burrell from the European Union called Europe a "flowering garden". Would you like to visit such a garden? " says the publication, which Dimitri Medvedev completed with a photo of demonstrations in France. In October 2022, Joseph Borrell, then the head of European diplomacy, compared Europe to a garden and the rest of the world to a jungle.