Three Assad generals will be tried in France

According to French press reports, the judicial investigation opened against the president of the Assad regime’s National Security Council, Ali Mamluk, Major General Cemil Hasan and Brigadier General Abdulselam Mahmud on charges of “crimes against the humanity, torture and forced detention”.

Investigating judges at the Paris Judicial Court decided that Assad’s generals could be charged with “collaboration in crimes against humanity and war crimes” at the Paris High Criminal Court for their role in the 2013 assassination of Mazzan. Dabbagh, a French-Syrian citizen. and his son Patrick Dabbagh.

While the Syrian Media Center and the League for Human Rights, the civil parties in the case, welcomed the decision, the International Federation for Human Rights stressed that the decision would allow for the trial of high-level Syrian regime officials for first time in France.

WILL BE JUDGED ON WEAR

Generals with international arrest warrants will be tried in absentia.
Mazzan Dabbagh, who worked at the French school in Damascus, and his son Patrick Dabbagh, who studied at Damascus University, were detained by Syrian Air Force intelligence agents in November 2013.

The sister of Mazzan’s wife, Obedia Dabbagh, who was arrested at the same time but released two days later, said the two were transferred to Al-Mezzeh prison in Damascus.
The preliminary investigation, which was opened in 2015 following the family’s complaint, escalated into a full-scale investigation in 2016, with the Syrian regime announcing that Patrick had died in January 2014 and his father in November 2017.

France issued an international arrest warrant for the generals in 2018. (AA)