French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Sunday that Syria was probably involved in a Beirut car bombing that killed a top anti-Damascus security official.
He called Assad a “manipulator” who wanted to spread the “contagion to Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.”
Friday’s bombing killed at least eight people, including Lebanese general Wissam al-Hassan of the Internal Security Forces (ISF), a prominent figure opposed to Assad.
The French foreign minister also said Lebanon’s powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah, which is closely allied to Assad’s regime, was involved in the Syrian unrest.
On October 6, a drone sent by Hezbollah managed to enter Israeli air space before being shot down near a nuclear reactor.
Fabius said that Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, wanted to “demonstrate more clearly” their support for Assad’s regime, adding: “We cannot accept that.”
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had boasted that his group sent the sophisticated unmanned drone and said the device was built by the Jewish state’s arch-foe Iran.
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