Alwaght- Syria accused France of plotting the chemical attack on Syrian city of Ghouta in 2013 to distract UN from another incident.
Referring to a Sarin gas attack on Damascus suburb of Ghouta on 21 August 2013 killing hundreds of people, Syrian representative to the UN, Bashar al-Jaffari described it as a plot to divert UN weapon inspectors from another incident blamed on rebels.
"The use of chemical weapons in the Damascus area was meant to prevent Dr Ake Sellstrom [the head of the weapons inspectors] from going to Aleppo because [France] knew who had used chemical weapons in Aleppo,” al-Jaafari said during UN Security Council meeting.
Khan Assal near Aleppo was hit with chemical weapons on 19 March 2013 that killed 20 were killed 123 injured, mostly civilians. The Syrian government reported to the United Nations, requesting a formal investigation of the incident.
"They [militants] wanted to prevent Dr Sellström from reaching Aleppo by any means and therefore they used chemical weapons in Damascus with the involvement of French intelligence, he added.
Gouta near Syrian capital of Damascus was hit with chemical bombs armed with deadly Sarin gas leaving a horrible scene where no exact calculation of casualties was possible but estimated toll ranged from at least 281 to 1729 dead.
A following UN inspection confirmed the attack as “the most significant” instance on such attacks since Saddam Hussein’s massacre in Halabja in 1988.
French representative to the Security Council, François Delattre, rejected the allegations as “absurd” and said “I’m not going to revisit all the derisory and grotesque things voiced by the representative of Syria,”
Syrian terrorist groups claimed government responsible for the attack, though the government rejected such claims and blamed western backed groups to commit the crime in order to justify they preferred foreign intervention.
