French PM on Dubai terror hit: Murder not apt

France blasts the alleged Israeli-run terror operation against a senior Hamas commander in Dubai, rejecting ‘murder’ as a solution in international relations.

“Murder is not the way one should conduct international relations,” said the visiting French Prime Minister Francois Fillon in the Syrian capital, Damascus on Saturday, AFP reported.

“France condemns this murder,” he added in condemning the January terrorist killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, the co-founder of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ armed wing, Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.

Earlier in the day, the Dubai Police Chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim said that new evidence, including records of credit card payments and phone calls made by the suspects, confirmed the involvement of the Israeli Spy Agency, Mossad, in Mabhouh’s terror operation.

“Like the British and like the Germans, we have asked for explanations from the Israeli authorities since a French passport has been used in this operation,” the premier added, referring to the international police warrants issued by that the United Arab Emirates alleging that passports used by the terror suspects to enter the country had been issued in European countries.

Fillon, however, did not elaborate on the response of the Israelis on the use of a French passport in the suspected terror operation.