French court confirms Lafarge ‘complicity in crimes against humanity’ charges • FRANCE 24
In early 2012 the Syrian conflict intensified in the country’s North and many French factories decided to close but not lafage which wanted to keep its cement factory up and running aware of the danger the company established contact with several armed organizations operating in the region including the Islamic State group prosecutors accuse
Lafage of funneling at least 13 million euros to jihadist fighters in exchange for the free movement of its personnel and equipment uncovered in the summer of 2016 by a group of journalists the investigation sparked a major Scandal forcing the resignation of CEO Eric olon in April 2017 and shortly after
Prompting a probe in laage under suspicion that it financed terrorism the company has since been indicted on multiple charges including complicity and crimes against humanity financing terrorism endangering the lives of others and violating a trade embargo the company appealed at charges and partly succeeded in late 2019 the Paris court
Of appeals dropped the most serious charge of crimes against humanity but upheld the other indictments the analment was appealed in turn by two nonprofits lafage has since acknowledged that had paid middleman to negotiate with armed groups but claims it was in the dark about any connection those groups may have had to terrorism
France’s top court confirmed ‘complicity in crimes against humanity’ charges against cement maker Lafarge linked to the firm’s past operations in war-torn Syria on January 16, 2024.
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3 comments
Only took 12 years 😂
Lafarge is one company that consistently violate trade laws and sovereignty of a lot of countries by bribing their way throughout the government and the leaders. They did worse things in Africa by bribing officials to get licenses and certifications. Lafarge, ExxonMobil and a Norwegian fishing company are the worst offenders. They use fictitious company names everywhere they operate.
Then they have the audacity to call these places a bastard, yet they never left.
So nothing happened to people at Lafarge who did this. No criminal charges, no prison sentences, just bonuses from the company?