Syrian Scientists Made Sarin Used in Chemical Attacks, France Claims

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France on Wednesday released new evidence directly linking the Syrian regime to an April 4 chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 people, including many children, and prompted President Donald Trump to order Tomahawk missile strikes against a Syrian air base.

The French findings, which are based on environmental samples collected in Khan Sheikhoun and blood samples taken from a victim on the day of the attack, bolster claims by the United States, Britain, Turkey, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that sarin had been used at Khan Sheikhoun.

"The sarin present in the munitions used on 4 April was produced using the same manufacturing process as that used during the sarin attack perpetrated by the Syrian regime in Saraqib," according to the French paper.

"This is the first open confirmation from a national government that hexamine is used by the Syrian government in the manufacture of sarin, confirming a hypothesis that had been circulating for over three years," said Dan Kaszeta, a London-based chemical weapons expert and former U.S. Army Chemical Corps officer, who said that hexamine has not been found in other countries' sarin programs.

The Syrian regime has denied that it has ever used sarin, or any other chemical weapons.

Syria's chief backer, Russia, claims that the release of chemical agents in Khan Sheikhoun was the result of a Syrian airstrike against an opposition warehouse containing chemical weapons.

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