France 24: French firm Lafarge loses bid to dismiss 'crimes against humanity' case in Syria
France's top court on Tuesday overturned a decision by a lower court to dismiss charges brought against cement giant Lafarge for complicity in crimes against humanity in Syria's civil war.
The ruling by the Court of Cassation marks a major setback for Lafarge, which is accused of paying nearly 13 million euros ($15.3 million) to jihadist groups including the Islamic State (IS) to keep its cement factory in northern Syria running through the early years of the country's war.
Lafarge's lawyer refused AFP's request for comment.
Lafarge, which merged in 2015 with Swiss group Holcim, has acknowledged that its Syrian subsidiary paid middlemen to negotiate with armed groups to allow the movement of staff and goods inside the war zone.
But it denies any responsibility for the money winding up in the hands of terrorist groups and has fought to have the case dropped.
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WNU Editor: Apparently French intelligence also knew what was happening .... Lafarge financed Daesh with knowledge of French intelligence - report (TRT). More here .... French intelligence knew cement giant Lafarge paid MILLIONS to ISIS & capitalized on its ties with terrorists – leaked papers (RT).
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3 comments:
"Syrian subsidiary paid middlemen to negotiate with armed groups
to allow the movement of staff and goods inside the war zone."
"Syrian subsidiary paid middlemen to negotiate with armed groups
to allow the employees to live and make a living."
There fixed.
If they did not pay what would happen? The Syrian employees would go with out a paycheck and eventually become refugees?
Why single out the La Farge? Why not the US? You can show a linkage. QATAR funds various Islamic groups in Syria, who fight the illegitimate government of Bashir Assad. Just because Assad's government is illegitimate does not mean Qatar can fund any old Islamic group hand have clean hands. Qatar funds these groups and the US is complicit, because they know of it and conduct business with Qatar anyway. The US government turns a blind eye, so that it has am airbase in Doha. There are other nearby air bases in the Gulf, which the US has, so do we really need that one at that cost?
I really do not like France, but there is the defense.
LaFarge writes it down as the "cost of doing business" which is a nice way of saying bribed them.
This is nothing
Wait till corporations get sued for coercing humans to take drugs or lose their job
Hundreds of billions in damages through lawsuits easy
And if the courts side with the corporations, they'll betray the people at a time when trust in law is low already. People will not abide by court decisions after this if they try to protect corporations who violated Nuremberg codes and many other human rights
Death penalty is too good for these people
We hung the Nazis
We will hang them
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