Several evacuation flights for French citizens in the mediate East were scheduled for Wednesday," said French abroad Minister Jean-Noël Barrot in an interview with France tv 2
"One [airplane] will take off from the United arabian Emirates, the another from Egypt, and the 3rd from Israel," Barrot informed.
The head of diplomacy did not give any information on how many people would fly prepared aircraft. presently there are about 400,000 French people in the region.
The first aircraft with French citizens evacuated from Oman landed on Wednesday morning at the Paris airport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle – reported AFP
In an interview with France 2 Barrot reported,
That French Rafale fighters shot down Iranian drones attacking the United arabian Emirates.
"We have already responded to the request of our partners, especially the United arabian Emirates, by providing them with military potential. All this for a strictly defensive purpose: to enable our partners to defend against aggression that they themselves did not provoke”
said the head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs.
AB, PAP
