France asks court to seek Assad crimes against humanity trial
- 9 years ago
French prosecutors will be hoping pictures do not lie as they open their case for crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The pictures come from the Syrian army officer once responsible for the archive who turned all 55,000 photos over to the investigators. The allegations also include torture and kidnapping, and 11,000 alleged victims of state security services have been identified.
Even if some victims are found to be French a trial in France is unlikely. The opening of the case is to clarify jurisdiction.
“When dead demonstrators arrived at the military hospital, and there were more and more of their bodies, he discovered the horror, signs of unbearable torture, victims only weighing 30 or 40 kilos, so he really saw that people were dying of hunger or torture in prison,” said the author of a book about ‘Caesar’, as the defector is known, Garance Le Caisne.
France is striking a tough international posture over Assad in the latest twis
The pictures come from the Syrian army officer once responsible for the archive who turned all 55,000 photos over to the investigators. The allegations also include torture and kidnapping, and 11,000 alleged victims of state security services have been identified.
Even if some victims are found to be French a trial in France is unlikely. The opening of the case is to clarify jurisdiction.
“When dead demonstrators arrived at the military hospital, and there were more and more of their bodies, he discovered the horror, signs of unbearable torture, victims only weighing 30 or 40 kilos, so he really saw that people were dying of hunger or torture in prison,” said the author of a book about ‘Caesar’, as the defector is known, Garance Le Caisne.
France is striking a tough international posture over Assad in the latest twis