The images of Emmanuel Macron and his Syrian counterpart, Ahmed Al Charaa, strolling in shirts on Monday evening in the splendid Umayyad mosque, dining in an old restaurant in Damascus, or arriving accomplices at the People’s Palace, the Syrian presidential building, were swept away in a few minutes on Tuesday July 7 by the announcement of a double explosion in the center of the capital. What’s more, near the Four Seasons hotel where the delegation and the French president had just slept, before going to an exchange with actors from Syrian civil society, on the second day of his visit. “The attack took place less than a kilometer from the meeting place with the Syrian Human Rights Network, it was clearly calibrated,” says Cédric Labrousse, doctoral student, specialist in Syria.
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