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He has done about twenty humanitarian missions in Syria. While the Turkish offensive against the Kurds lasts for three days now, Dr. Raphael Pitti denounces Saturday on Europe 1 the abandonment of this people "we have armed" to fight against Daesh.
Kurds "are abandoned", denounces Raphael Pitti. "It's unbearable, it's a terrible cowardice, it's shameful what Trump does," he laments, while the US president refuses for the time to raise the tone against Turkey . A real uproar on the international scene, this offensive on the part of Ankara must be punished "by economic sanctions" to prevent "the bombing against these populations and forces that fought for us," insists Raphael Pitti.
"Kurds do not deserve this"
In contact with local carers who "are ready to give their lives because freedom is priceless", the doctor lets his feelings at the microphone of Europe 1: "I am very angry, I went six times in that area [northern Syria, ed] and it was a stabilized area, all rebasing, and we plunge into the emergency, this population that has suffered so much for eight years does not deserve it, the Kurds do not deserve this. " A situation all the more worrying as "Daech reappears," says the doctor. "There has already been an attack on a village, two car bombs, there is a risk of resurgence of these forces that the Kurds held until now".
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"Daech left Raqqa, but is still present in Syria, they live in hiding, they mixed with the population while waiting for their time, and they have the impression that it has arrived," he analyzes. A concern also shared by Emmanuel Macron, who called for stopping the Turkish offensive "as soon as possible" and "stressed the need first and foremost to prevent any resurgence of Daesh in the region, to support those who have beaten on the ground by us against the terrorists and protect the civilian population. "