France to Maronite Patriarch: "Bashar Assad est fini ...fini!... Pas vraiment!"

During Patriarch Rai's visit to Paris and his meeting with French President Sarkozy (a meeting attended by FM Alain Juppe), almost after every sentence the Patriarch was surprised to hear Sarkozy say "naah, Assad est fini, fini!".
On his way out, the Patriarch inquired with the accompanying Juppe about his boss's certainty to finally hear Juppe say, "mais non il n'est pas fini, il a l'armee, toute la structure gouvernementalle et une partie du peuple avec lui".
El Rai' returned to Lebanon with Juppe's verdict and not Sarkozy's, in mind.