See the sources for this fact-check Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones seized on a May 9 video of a train car meeting among three European leaders to claim they had used drugs and were trying to hide it.

The French president was traveling by train with the leaders of Germany and the U.K. to Kyiv, Ukraine, in May 2025.

A bizarre conspiracy that European leaders snorted cocaine en route to critical Ukraine talks has been roundly ridiculed by the French president’s office, after it was promoted by Russian trolls as well as American conspiracists such as Alex Jones.

Emmanuel Macron's office firmly denied a conspiracy theory that the French president brought a bag of cocaine with him on a trip to Ukraine with other European leaders. The false rumor was pushed by A

The leaders of France, Germany and the UK met on Friday aboard a train travelling from Poland to Ukraine. The three will be in Kyiv on Saturday as calls intensify for Russia to agree a ceasefire and come to the negotiating table.

The silence of official Berlin in connection with the video that has spread around the world, in which German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are riding on a train,

While France hasn’t called out anyone specifically, said Russian official, foreign ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, shared some curious words after the video went viral as she claimed joked, “Looks like the Frenchman, the Englishman & the German boarded a train… and took a hit.

PARIS - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz traveled to Paris on his first foreign trip as head of government to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron, with the two leaders promising closer defense ties and a reboot of the French-German alliance that has been a driver of European cooperation.