Investigating magistrates in France have issued an arrest warrant for deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for alleged complicity in war crimes and launching a deliberate attack on civilians, a legal source said on Tuesday (21).
The warrant was issued on January 20 as part of an investigation into the case of Salah Abou Nabour, a French-Syrian citizen, who was killed on June 7, 2017 in a bombing in Syria.
This is the second arrest warrant issued by French judges for the former Syrian leader, who was deposed in early December 2024 by rebel forces led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (HTS, the most powerful military faction within the Syrian opposition). .
In November 2023, French magistrates 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 Eastern Ghouta district in August 2013, which killed more than a thousand 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.
This content was originally published in France issues new arrest warrant for deposed Syrian leader, says source on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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