Paris, SANA – France has expressed its solidarity with the families of the victims of the chemical massacre in Ghouta, Damascus, carried out on August 21, 2013, by the deposed regime against civilians.
In a statement posted on the X platform, the French Foreign Ministry recalled that “on 21/08/13, Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime launched a sarin gas attack on the people of Damascus’s Ghouta district, killing 1,400 people.”
The ministry affirmed that France honors the memory of the victims and stands with their families and all Syrians “to ensure that the Assad regime and its allies are finally held accountable for their countless crimes.”
The Ghouta massacre, one of the deadliest chemical attacks of the conflict, left hundreds of civilians dead — most of them women and children — and thousands more injured with symptoms of suffocation and poisoning from internationally banned weapons.
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