Express help: after the double explosion on Tuesday in Beirut, which left at least 100 dead and thousands of wounded, the Elysee Palace indicates that France will send 55 members of the civil security, 15 tons of material, but also a mobile health post including 6 tons of equipment and allowing the treatment of 500 wounded. The two planes will take off from Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle in the middle of the day for an arrival at the end of the afternoon.
"About ten emergency personnel must also reach Beirut as soon as possible to strengthen the hospitals in the Lebanese capital with the support of the CMA-CGM for transport", added the Elysee, which specifies that "French elements of the UNIFIL (UN mission in Lebanon, Editor's note) have already intervened ”Tuesday evening in Beirut. France is still working to "identify additional needs," said the same source.
"Rescue and clearing specialists"
President Emmanuel Macron assured his Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun on Tuesday evening of the support of France, and announced on Twitter overnight this aid to the disaster-stricken Lebanese capital, explaining that France would send a detachment of civil security and "several tons of sanitary equipment ”.
We are deploying a civil security detachment and several tonnes of medical equipment in Lebanon. Emergency doctors will also reach Beirut as soon as possible to strengthen hospitals. France is already engaged.
- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) August 5, 2020The 55 soldiers of the Civil Security Unit n.1 of Nogent-le-Rotrou are in particular “rescue and clearance specialists” and come from “a unit specializing in the recognition of technological risks”, he added. we learned from Civil Security.
The two huge explosions in the port of Beirut on Tuesday left at least 100 dead and thousands injured, and caused scenes of devastation and panic in the Lebanese capital. The Lebanese government points the finger at a cargo of ammonium nitrate stored "without precautionary measures" in the port.
VIDEO. Lebanon: two strong explosions shake Beirut, dead and thousands injured
