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France issues new arrest warrant for Syria's Assad - source
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Posted on January 22, 2025
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France has issued a new arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad for war crimes, linked to a 2017 bombing and previous chemical attacks.
PARIS (Reuters) - French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, notably the launch of a deliberate attack on civilians, a legal source said late on Tuesday.
The mandate was issued on Jan. 20 as part of an investigation into the case of Salah Abou Nabour, a Franco-Syrian national, who was killed on June 7, 2017 in a bombing raid in Syria.
This is the second arrest warrant issued by French judges, for the former Syrian leader, who was overthrown in early December 2024 by insurgent forces led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
In November 2023, French judges had issued a first warrant against Bashar al-Assad on charges of complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes.
It followed a French investigation into chemical attacks in Douma and the district of Eastern Ghouta in August 2013 that killed more than 1,000 people.
Assad's government has in the past denied using chemical weapons against its opponents in the civil war, which broke out in March 2011.
(Reporting by Juliette Jabkhiro, writing by Dominique Vidalon, editing by Benoit Van Overstraeten)
The main topic is France issuing a new arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad over war crimes.
The warrant was issued for Assad's suspected complicity in war crimes, including attacks on civilians.
A previous warrant was issued for Assad's involvement in 2013 chemical attacks.
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