US EditionFrance Issues New Arrest Warrant Against Syria's Ex-Leader Assad for Chemical Attacks
The third French arrest warrant targets Assad for crimes against humanity and war crimes in 2013 chemical attacks that injured 450 and killed over 1,000, officials said.
- French magistrates this summer issued a third arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad, replacing a previous one after he was toppled last year.
- French investigators since 2021 have probed suspected chemical attacks on Adra and Douma on August 4-5, 2013, and in Eastern Ghouta on August 21, which reportedly hurt around 450 people while American intelligence says over 1,000 were killed.
- They also issued warrants against Talal Makhlouf, former commander of the Syrian Republican Guard's 105th Brigade, and separate cases target 2017 Deraa and 2012 press centre attacks.
- Russia has said it is protecting Assad on 'humanitarian grounds' and Sergei Lavrov confirmed he still lives in Moscow after last week's meeting, with no extradition discussed.
- The ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia after Islamist-led fighters seized power on December 8, and a 2023 warrant was annulled in July while he still had immunity.
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France issues third arrest warrant against Syria’s Assad
French magistrates this summer issued a new arrest warrant against ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad over deadly chemical attacks in 2013, a judicial source said on Thursday. This means France has now put out three separate arrest warrants against the former dictator exiled in Russia, who ruled Syria from 2000 until he was toppled last year after more than 14 years of devastating civil war. French investigators have since 2021 been looking…
French Judiciary Issues New International Arrest Warrant for Bashar al-Assad on War Crimes Charges
French courts have issued a new international arrest warrant for the ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in connection with chemical attacks carried out in 2013 that killed hundreds of civilians, AFP reported on Thursday, citing a judicial source. According to the agency, this latest warrant adds to two previous ones issued by the French judiciary against al-Assad. Investigating judges in Paris signed the new warrant on 29 July this year, c…
France issues third arrest warrant against Syria’s ex-leader Bashar
PARIS: French magistrates this summer issued a new arrest warrant against ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad over deadly chemical attacks in 2013, a judicial source said on Thursday. This means France has now put out three separate arrest warrants against the former dictator exiled in Russia, who ruled Syria from 2000 until he was toppled last year after more than 14 years
France issues new arrest warrant against Syria's ex-leader Assad for chemical attacks
French authorities have issued a new arrest warrant for Syrian ex-president Bashar al- Assad over the suspected Syrian government chemical attacks on Adra and Douma outside Damascus and in Eastern Ghouta in August 2013. Nearly 1,500 people were killed or injured in the attacks, US intelligence sources say.
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