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France Issues Arrest Warrant for Syria's Assad over 2012 Bombing that Killed Two Journalists
French authorities issued arrest warrants against Bashar al-Assad and six officials for the 2012 Homs bombing that killed journalists, investigating it as a war crime and crime against humanity.
- French judicial authorities have issued arrest warrants for ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and six of his former officials.
- American war correspondent Marie Colvin, 56, and French photojournalist Rémi Ochlik, 28, were killed in 2012 in the Syrian city of Homs in an attack investigated as a potential war crime.
- The warrants accuse Assad and others of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to the targeted killing of the two journalists.
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Assad arrest warrant marks end of 'vile impunity', says wounded journalist
French journalist Edith Bouvier has welcomed arrest warrants issued by Paris for Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad and six of his senior officials, more than a decade after a bombing in Homs killed two of her colleagues and left her badly injured.
The arrest warrant for the overthrown President of Syria and his family was issued in the case of the death of American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remy Okley, who were killed in 2012 in the bombing of the Syrian city of Homs.
France seeks arrest of Syria's Assad
French judicial authorities have issued arrest warrants for ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and six other top former officials over the bombardment of a rebel-held city in 2012 that killed two journalists, lawyers said Tuesday. Marie Colvin, 56, an American working for The Sunday Times of Britain, and French photographer Remi Ochlik, 28, were killed on February 22, 2012 by the explosion in the eastern city of Homs, which is being investi…
A press centre had been bombed in Homs, killing two journalists, and wounding three others.
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