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French court accepts charges against cement company for complicity in crimes against humanity by ISIS
[Rudaw] A top court in La Belle France on Tuesday said that a French cement company operating in Syria should be investigated on charges of complicity in crimes against humanity for allegedly financing the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) group and other gunnies during the early years of the civil war in northern Syria. "The indictment of the company for terrorist financing is confirmed," the Court of Cassation said in a statement. Lafarge is accused of financially supporting militias, including ISIS, in order to keep its factory operating during the 2011 conflict in Syria. In 2019, the Gay Paree Court of Appeal dismissed the charge of crimes against humanity saying it has accepted that the payments were not aimed at the terrorist group and its agenda of torture and executions. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the company still faced three other charges of financing terrorism, violating a European Union  ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...embargo, and endangering the lives of others. A peaceful uprising against the president of Syria turned into a civil war ten years ago. The conflict has left millions of people dead and displaced. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) documented the deaths of 387,118 people by December 2020, among them 116,911 civilians. Three years later, ISIS seized control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014. The last of its so-called caliphate was defeated in Syria in 2019, but the group remains a threat on both sides of the border. Lafarge, which merged with the Swiss group Holcim in 2015, has acknowledged that its Syrian subsidiary paid middlemen to negotiate with gangs to allow the movement of staff and goods inside the war zone, according to AFP. It has fought to drop this case. There are scores of companies that are accused of crimes against humanity for their activities in areas of conflict but they are rarely brought to trial. Related: Lafarge: 2021-07-16 Paris aware of Lafarge-ISIS agreement in Syria: French newspaper Lafarge: 2021-07-14 Egypt court upholds life sentences for 10 Muslim Brotherhood members Lafarge: 2021-07-05 Eight Turkish mercenaries killed, tank destroyed in SDF retaliatory operations Related: Holcim: 2021-06-08 French Court Investigates Lafarge's Links to Terrorism in Syria Holcim: 2017-12-03 Europe Holcim: 2016-08-06 French cement company in Syria buys oil from ISIS – Documents Posted by: trailing wife 2021-09-09 |
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