Pierre Issa arrived to meet French President Emmanuel Macron on August 6 with 10 stitches on his face, two chipped teeth and a few broken bones. "I wasn't sure if I could make it today, so I wrote an open letter to you just in case," recalls Issa, telling Macron.
Issa - a bespectacled 63-year-old who is the secretary general of the Lebanese non-sectarian National Bloc party - was one of the thousands injured in the August 4 explosion in the Beirut port that ravaged large parts of Lebanon. capital.
More than 200 others died and the Lebanese state was on the brink of collapse. Two days later, Macron flew to Beirut to collect emergency aid as well as a political resolution. He brought traditional politicians together to try to resolve their disagreements and met with humanitarian workers and civil society actors.
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