The French Public Prosecution for Combating Terrorism announced, on Monday, that it had requested a new arrest warrant against ousted Syrian President Bashar al -Assad against the backdrop of the 2013 bloody chemical attack after it was canceled as a previous memo, according to the “French Press Agency”.
The matter is currently due to the investigation judges to decide whether or not they will issue the new arrest warrant.
Since 2021, French investigators began an investigation into an assumed attack with sarin gas launched by the government during the Assad era, killing more than a thousand people, according to US intelligence, in the cities of Adra and Duma on the fourth and fifth of August 2013.
The Court of Cassation, the highest in France, on Friday that no exception could raise the immunity of a head of state, even in war crimes and crimes against humanity, canceling an arrest warrant issued against Assad in 2023 when he was still president.
But she added that since Assad, who was overthrown in December, was no longer a president, new notes can be issued against him and the French investigation will continue.
The Public Prosecution for Combating Terrorism reported that it requested Friday “to issue an arrest warrant against Bashar al -Assad and publish it internationally on charges of complicity of crimes against humanity and the collusion of war crimes” in the case of chemical attack.
Assad and his family fled to Russia, according to the Russian authorities, after fighters led by the Headquarters for the Liberation of Al -Sham seized power on the eighth of December 2024.
Another French arrest warrant was issued against Assad in January on the suspicion of collusion in war crimes against the background of bombing targeting the city of Daraa in 2017, which killed a Syrian -French civilian.
