France`s Hollande fires back at Trump over Paris comments

  26 February 2017    Read: 885
France`s Hollande fires back at Trump over Paris comments
French President Francois Hollande fired back at Donald Trump on Saturday after the US president remarked in a speech that a friend thought "Paris is no longer Paris" after attacks by Islamist militants.
Hollande said Trump should show support for US allies. "There is terrorism and we must fight it together. I think that it is never good to show the smallest defiance toward an allied country. I wouldn`t do it with the United States and I`m urging the US president not to do it with France," Hollande said.

"I won`t make comparisons but here, people don`t have access to guns. Here, you don`t have people with guns opening fire on the crowd simply for the satisfaction of causing drama and tragedy," Hollande said. During a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, Trump repeated his criticism of Europe`s handling of attacks by Islamist militants saying a friend "Jim" no longer wanted to take his family to Paris.

/Reuters/

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