Lavrov Says Paris Attackers Were Trained by Foreign-Backed Terrorist Groups in Syria

MOSCOW-Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday that last Wednesday’s attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was committed by terrorists who had fought in Syria along the foreign-backed armed groups fighting the Syrian state.

“Cooperation [with the West on counter-terrorism] has been suspended. Meanwhile, terrorists do not suspend cooperation with each other. Terrorist activity knows no bounds,” Lavrov said, according to Itar Tass.

“The two brothers who attacked the editorial office of the Paris magazine had mastered ‘the art of terror’ in Syria,” he added.

Seventeen people were killed in the French capital and its neighbourhoods in the terrorist attacks last week. Among them were ten journalists from the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, three policemen and four visitors of a kosher grocery store.

H. Mustafa