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Assad requests Macron halt the violence in Paris

Assad demande à Macron de cesser les violences à Paris

Politico,

18 April, 2018

Bashar Al-Assad announced that he was ready to intervene to help Macron to calm the violent demonstrations that have rocked France for the past days. It was during a press conference in Damascus that Bashar Al-Assad has said that the violence terrible pro-palestinian demonstrations should stop immediately, before the entire region was engulfed in a fireball. He told the journalists present to be very worried for the French people, and find the attitude of Macron particularly flippant in the face of risk of civil war hangs over France.

Excerpt from his press conference:

FRANCE IS PRESENTLY PREY TO MANY VIOLENT ACTS THAT CANNOT BE TOLERATED. IN SYRIA, SUCH ACTS WOULD ALREADY HAVE BEEN PUNISHED WITH CALM AND SERENITY. IT IS TIME THAT FRANCE ADOPTS A DOMESTIC POLICY MORE CIVILIZED AND PROTECTS ITS CITIZENS. MY COLLEAGUES in THE MIDDLE EAST Are ALSO CONCERNED about A FLARE up OF The COMPLETE WESTERN EUROPE. FRANCE NEEDS to live up TO ITS STATUS as a COUNTRY OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND to STOP THESE BEHAVIORS of the middle ages. WE ARE PREPARED TO OFFER ASYLUM IN SYRIA, ANY FRENCH CITIZEN WITH FEAR FOR HIS LIFE OR THAT OF HIS FAMILY.