© Romain Lafabregue / AFPAlain Juillet
Alain Juillet, en forhenværende vicedirektør for efterretningsvæsenet ved Frankrigs General Direktorat for Udenrigssikkerhed, beskyldte franske myndigheder for at lave en stribe af dårlige udenrigspolitiske beslutninger, såsom det pro-oprører standpunkt i den syriske krise og det anti-russiske svar på turmulten i Ukraine, hvilket han siger har vist sig at være skadelig for franske borgere.
"Frankrig var helt klar gal på den hvad angår Syrien og Ukraine", sagde Juillet til Paris Match i torsdags, mens han citerede to mulige årsager for myndighedernes politiske bommerter. Den ene mulige forklaring som han gav var at regeringen havde modtaget upræcise efterretninger. Den anden mulighed var at " på trods af efterretningerne, at politikerne ønskede at gå i en retning som ikke var forbundet med virkeligheden. Han pointerede at hvad angår det syriske emne, så ignorerede vi simpelhen virkeligheden.
For at fremhæve vigtigheden af at opretholde konstruktive forbindelser med de syriske myndigheder, så nævnte han gidselsituationen i hvilken fire franske journalister i Syrien tilbragte næsten et år i fangenskab inden de blev befriet i 2014.
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"At the time of the conflict in Iraq, when four journalists were taken hostage in Syria, we maintained good relations, though not official, with Syrian services. These relationships have always served us. Suddenly, all the bridges are cut. This is utter nonsense," he said.
Juillet also blamed the government for being manipulated into helping "people, supposedly rebels, who are in fact Al-Qaeda affiliates backed by the Gulf countries." He complained that the "advice of the intelligence services is ignored,"which is "a serious mistake."
The former intelligence officer also lamented the damage being done to French industry by sticking to the pro-American policy in the Ukraine conflict.
"By following policy set by Americans, we didn't anticipate the consequences of the embargo against Moscow. It, of course, has created some problems for Russia, but look what is happening to our agriculture! We ourselves cut its access to the Russian market."
He also questioned the effectiveness of the US-endorsed embargo on Russia, saying it had been "fabricated" by American neoconservatives.
US presidential candidate Donald Trump's admission that the war in Iraq was a mistake shows that he doesn't mind breaking "a taboo existing among Republicans, who had buried the case," and indicates that "Americans are beginning to wash their dirty laundry," according to Juillet, who expects that more and more Americans will begin to question the necessity and nature of the US' involvement in Ukraine. Several articles have already been published disputing Washington's handling of the crisis.
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