France issues arrest warrant for Syrian President Assad?

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (Photo: Reuters).

French judges on November 15 issued arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad and two other senior Syrian officials on charges of using chemical weapons against civilians in the country, Reuters reported.

This is the first international arrest warrant against President Assad.

The arrest warrant follows a French criminal investigation into chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian towns of Douma and Eastern Ghouta in August 2013 that killed more than 1,000 people.

The Syrian President's Office and Foreign Ministry have not yet commented on the above information.

Syrian officials have denied using chemical weapons, but a previous investigation by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons accused the Syrian military of using nerve agents in an attack in April 2017.

In October, French judges issued arrest warrants for two former Syrian defense ministers over a 2017 bombing that killed a French-Syrian citizen.

The Syrian civil war broke out in 2011 due to the influence of the Arab Spring movement to overthrow Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/the-gioi/phap-phat-lenh-bat-tong-thong-syria-assad-20231115195629439.htm