Hariri-Chirac: Friendship and Political Support

Elie Valluy - Paris correspondent , 14/02 12:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Jacques Chirac Rafic Hariri Lebanon France

February 16, 2005. Jacques Chirac arrived at Beirut airport with his wife, Bernadette, to pay tribute to former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, who had been killed in a massive bombing two days earlier. As he stepped off the plane and delivered a speech on the airport tarmac, Chirac condemned the “abominable crime, one that seemed like it ...