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France’s judiciary on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on suspicion of complicity in war crimes, specifically relating to the death of a French-Syrian man in 2017.<\/p>\n
Investigating judges suspect al-Assad of complicity in murder and attacks on civilians.<\/p>\n
The newspaper Le Parisien reported that the 59-year-old man was killed when his house in the southern Syrian city of Daraa was bombed by Syrian army helicopters in June 2017.<\/p>\n
Citing investigators, the newspaper stated that France’s judiciary suspects that al-Assad ordered the attack and provided the necessary means for it.<\/p>\n
At the time, al-Assad’s government was attempting to regain control of Daraa from opposition forces.<\/p>\n
In 2023, the French judiciary issued an arrest warrant for al-Assad in connection with chemical weapons attacks. This specifically concerned severe chemical attacks in the region of East Ghouta near Damascus in August 2013.<\/p>\n
In an attack with the nerve gas Sarin, hundreds of people were killed. Human rights organizations report more than 1,000 fatalities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n