Sean Adl-Tabatabai — Your Newswire Nov 15, 2015

Patrick Pelloux revealed on national radio on Saturday that the French military conducted a “multi-site” military exercise in Paris on the same day as the Paris attacks on November 13.

He said that the Paris emergency services were so well prepared, because “as luck would have it“, they had been planning for a similar scenario.

Transcript:

“As luck would have it, in the morning at the Paris SAMU (EMT), a multi-site attack exercise had been planned.”

“So we were prepared. What needs to be known is there was a mobilisation of police forces, firemen, EMTs, associations who came [to participate] and we tried to save as many people as possible.”

Original French transcript:

Le hasard a fait, pour vous dire, c’est que le matin au SAMU de Paris, avait été organisé un exercice sur des attentats multisites. Donc on était préparés. Donc ce qu’il faut voir c’est que vous aviez une mobilisation des forces de police, des pompiers, des SAMU, des associatifs qui sont venus et on a essayé de sauver le plus de monde possible.

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