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January 22, 2025 | 08:22 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - 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, January 21, 2025.
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 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.
Assad ruled Syria with an iron fist for nearly 25 years. He fled to Russia on December 8, 2025, after anti-regime groups took control of Damascus.
In the aftermath of the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Germany, France, Austria, and several Nordic European countries explained that they would freeze all pending asylum requests from Syrians. Quoted from Al Arabiya, Berlin, and other countries said they were watching the rapid developments in the war-torn country. Vienna, meanwhile, signaled it would deport Syrian refugees soon.
Source: REUTERS
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