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Emmanuel Macron tempted by a rapprochement with Bashar el-Assad

2023-02-07T18:43:57.650Z


ANALYSIS - The deadly earthquake that devastated Syria could be an opportunity for Paris to gently renew relations with Damascus.


What if the deadly earthquake that shook Turkey and Syria led to another earthquake, a diplomatic one?

A resumption of relations between Paris and Damascus, interrupted by a decade of repression against its opponents orchestrated by Bashar el-Assad, who finally came to the end.

“Emmanuel Macron thinks that there is a company to rehabilitate Assad led by the Arab allies of France

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and perhaps soon Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan”

, confided a source at the Élysée, at the end of the week. last, before the earthquake.

“Are we watching the train pass at the risk of being left out of the process?”

, we wonder in the entourage of Emmanuel Macron.

Read also“Returnees” from Syria: “The country does not have the means to monitor them”, considers Thibault de Montbrial

In recent years, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Cairo have indeed reconnected with Damascus, while Jordan, exhausted by the reception of hundreds of thousands of refugees, was building an international roadmap for a rapprochement with Assad.

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Source: lefigaro

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