France: Poisonous nerve gas used in Syrian war

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gives an interview to the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun during a trip to Yokohama, Japan, 2 June 2013. Photo by Rick Bajornas/UN
France’s foreign minister says French lab tests confirm the Syrian Government used nerve gas “multiple times” to fight opposition rebels. The tests were based on samples of body fluids taken from victims in Syria including urine samples carried out by French reporters. Tests show that the samples “prove the presence of sarin” a poisonous nerve gas. France has handed the evidence to the United Nations. The United States has previously reported that US intelligence has determined “with varying degrees of confidence” that saris has been used in a small scale.  
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called a new report on growing atrocities in Syria’s civil war “sickening and staggering”. A UN panel investigating human rights abuses said there was “reasonable grounds” to believe that chemical weapons had been used by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and opposition rebels.


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