“France has issued a new warrant for the arrest of Syrian ex-president Assad French investigative judges have issued a warrant for the arrest of Bashar Assad for war crimes. The case concerns the death of a French-Syrian citizen during the bombing in 2017.”, — write on: unn.ua
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Two French investigative judges have issued an arrest warrant for ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on suspicion of war crimes, the second such move by the French judiciary, a source said on Tuesday.
The mandate was issued as part of an investigation into the case of Salah Abu Nabut, a 59-year-old French-Syrian citizen and former French teacher who died on June 7, 2017, after his home was bombed by Syrian army helicopters.
French judicial authorities believe that Assad ordered and provided the means for this attack, the source said.
Relatives of the victims are waiting for the court hearing of the case
“This case is the culmination of a long struggle for justice, which I and my family believed in from the very beginning … a trial will take place and the guilty will be arrested and convicted, wherever they are,” the son said in a statement. victims of Omar Abu Nabut.
In total, according to AFP estimates, the French justice system has issued 14 arrest warrants for Syrian officials.
The war in Syria, which began in 2011 with a brutal crackdown on protests against Assad, has killed more than half a million people and devastated the country’s economy.
Tens of thousands of people have been detained and tortured in the country’s prisons, while Assad is accused of using chemical weapons, including the banned sarin, against his own people.
We will remind
In a suburb of Damascus, militants associated with the new government publicly executed a local official, Masen Knenekh. He was accused of writing reports for the Assad regime that led to the torture of young people.
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