(Source: Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis) Mr. President of the Congress, Mr. President of the Senate Mr. Prime Minister Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the Government, Ladies and Gentlemen, Parliamentarians, France is at war. The acts committed in Paris and near the Stade de France on Friday evening are acts of war. They left at least 129 dead and many injured. They are an act of aggression against our country, against its values, against its young people, and against its way of life. They were carried out by a jihadist army, by Daesh, which is fighting us because France is a country of freedom, because we are the birthplace of human rights. At this exceptionally solemn moment, I wanted...
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