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2. His memoir mentioned arming the rebels

AFP, Paris
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
French President Francois Hollande admitted to delivering weapons to Syrian rebels in 2012 despite an embargo, according to a new book coming out in France this month.

“We began when we were certain they would end up in the right hands. For the lethal weapons it was our services who delivered them,” Hollande told author Xavier Panon in an interview in May last year.

The book by the journalist specializing in diplomatic and military issues, is entitled “In the corridors of French diplomacy.”

Panon wrote that France delivered canons, machine guns, rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles to the rebels fighting Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in an uprising that has turned into all-out civil war and drawn in thousands of foreign jihadists.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/05/06/France-delivered-weapons-to-Syria-rebels-book-reveals.html