MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 30th March, 2019) Belgian and French intelligence officers have arrived in Syria's Idlib to stage provocations with the use of chemical substances, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for Syrian Reconciliation said on Friday.
"To organize provocations, representatives of the French and Belgian secret services arrived in Idlib. Under their supervision, a meeting was held with the field commanders of the terrorist groups of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham [banned in the Russia] and Hurras Al-Din, as well as with the representatives of the pseudo-humanitarian organization 'White helmets'," Maj. Gen. Viktor Kupchishin said at a news briefing.
At the meeting, the attendees discussed organization of staged film shoots, which would falsely depict Russia and Syria using chemical agents against civilians, according to the center.
"For participation in filming of scenes depicting the effects of the use of poisonous substances, payments were set at $100 per person. At the same time, it is possible that organizers used real toxic substances in order to achieve 'authenticity' of photo and video materials," Kupchishin underlined, adding that refugees and families held by the terrorist groups could have been forced to take part in the staged shoots.
At the same time, the Belgian special services have been filming the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the arms depots of terrorists in order to use that footage in accusing Russia of using of chemical weapons, according to the center's head.
"From March 14 to March 27, 2019, the representatives of the Belgian secret services recorded strikes on video, which the Russian Aerospace Forces targeted at terror groups' arms depots and footholds of drones on the territory of the Idlib de-escalation zone, in order to subsequently present them as an 'evidence' of the use of chemical weapons," Kupchishin stressed.
