French authorities declassified an intelligence report on Monday which claims that the Bashar al-Assad regime has staged at least three chemical attacks in Syria since April, including the August 21 attack.
The French government published a nine-page synopsis on Monday about Syria’s chemical weapons programme that sites at least three chemical attacks between April and August.
The report also alleged that nobody but the Bashar al-Assad regime could have carried out the August 21 chemical attack outside Damascus, which it said at least 281 deaths could be attributed to. The analysis based that count in part from dozens of videos culled by French intelligence services.
The figure was markedly lower than that provided by Washington, which spoke of at least 1,400 deaths.