France 24 published a report of AFP says that President Emmanuel Macron saying on Thursday that he would respond to "proof " that the Assad regime had used chemical weapons, "at a time of our choosing."
During an interview on France's TF1 television President Macron said "We have proof that chemical weapons were used last week, at least chlorine, and that they were used by the regime of Bashar al-Assad,"
Macron added that he was in daily contact with US President Donald Trump and that they would decide on their response "at a time of our choosing, when we judge it to be the most useful and the most effective."
The French leader, who had made the use of chemical weapons in Syria a "red line", said one of his aims in Syria was to "remove the regime's chemical attack capabilities," but he repeated that he wanted to also avoid "an escalation".