Shortly after the US along with the UK and France launched a missile strike against Syria over an alleged gassing of civilians in Douma, French intelligence services released a report claiming that the Syrian government maintained a covert chemical weapons program since 2013.
Early on April 14 French Ministry of Defense published a report compiled by the country’s intelligence services regarding a possible use of chemical weapons in the Syrian city of Douma a week earlier.
French government admits that it has no samples of the chemical weapons that were allegedly used in Douma, with the report noting “the absence to date of chemical samples analyzed by our own laboratories.”
Instead, the report’s authors explained that Paris chose to rely on “publicly available information from non-governmental organizations and other sources”, along with “unspecified French intelligence”, according to AP.