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- Macron said Paris had established that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons, including chlorine, on April 7 in the town of Douma.
- He will will decide whether to strike back when all the necessary information has been gathered.
- Macron said France wanted to remove the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons capabilities. When asked whether those would be the targets of French strikes he said he’d see about that.
PARIS (Reuters) – France has proof the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack last week and will decide whether to strike back when all the necessary information has been gathered, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday.
“Our teams have been working on this all week and we will need to take decisions in due course, when we judge it most useful and effective,” Macron told broadcaster TF1 when asked whether a red line had been crossed.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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