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The terror attacks in Paris came right after the Valletta Summit on migration – two days of diplomatic talks that generated a series of divergences despite agreement upon an action plan to prevent human trafficking and the launch of an emergency trust fund for Africa. European Union countries differed in opinion as regards refugee intake and the concept of retaining the fortress stance rather than opening the borders. However, it is clear from the emerging rhetoric that, far from exhibiting a humanitarian agenda, the summit served to dissociate the current refugee crisis from the political violence fuelled by imperialist agenda.

While further anti-refugee sentiment and xenophobia materialised, French President Francois Hollande utilised the horror to propagate further violent discourse, following in his predecessor’s footsteps. Conveniently, fake Syrian passports were allegedly discovered near two of the dead suspects. Despite the fact that, so far, identified suspects have no connection to Syria, the current refugee crisis, as well as right-wing hyperbole regarding the possibility of ISIS infiltrating through Europe as refugees seem to have provided enough justification for Hollande to embark upon a bombing spree in Syria.

According to Hollande, the attacks “were decided and planned in Syria, prepared and organised in Belgium, and perpetrated on our soil with French complicity.”

European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker appeared to have refuted Hollande’s twisted morality, stating that “Those who organised [and perpetrated] the attacks are the very same people who the refugees are fleeing from and not the opposite.” Juncker also insisted that there is no need to review Europe’s policy on refugees.

For those willing to propagate further atrocities upon civilians, however, the alleged discovery of the Syrian passports provides ample justification for yet another colonial endeavour in the region. The tactic in itself is not an innovation – during NATO’s destruction of Libya, claims emerged that Viagra pills belonging to soldiers from the Libyan army were discovered in burnt ruins, thus fuelling further support for the imperialist-backed and funded “rebels”. Never mind the fact that the rebels were responsible for horrendous crimes, including the ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of the Tawergha people.

In both cases, however, alleged evidence has been used as justification to perpetrate further war crimes – always after the West having been responsible for creating the conditions for atrocities and instability to thrive. France has backed rebels in Libya and Syria against the regimes of Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad, effectively participating in Arab Spring conspiracy that has provided clear evidence of the intent to sustain perpetual turmoil.

It seems as if circumstantial, planted evidence at the scene has provided enough validation for France’s extended foray into the new colonial wars instigated in the Middle East. The façade serves various purposes – from reinforcing the political debacle which will now reflect upon Syrian refugees fleeing the war and ISIS atrocities, to enhancing the concept of stringent border control, thus laying bare the purported humanitarianism of the EU. To put it succinctly, there is no international will to defeat ISIS, as long as the organisation continues to serve the interests of its creators. Hence, the alleged discovery of the Syrian passports will provide nothing other than an imperialist adherence to further militarisation and murder.