ER Editor: From 2012 we now get this, which we’re simply taking as a move on the chessboard. Why this, why now? Our sense of smell suggests that this could be yet another humiliation for France.
Pretty much everything the western media had to say about the Assad regime during the most recent years was based on lies as far as we can tell. ‘Assad must go’ became the joke whereby the western leaders who attempted that were removed from office themselves. Assad survived, it seems, thanks to Putin establishing a military presence there way back. Nothing since then about Syria has made any sense whatever. If Putin could stop regime change efforts by the West in Syria, then takeover from November 2024 by ‘rebel’ groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), with Russia suddenly powerless to stop that, simply doesn’t compute. And Russia took in Assad, allegedly. Now this. When did France start caring about its journalists or those from other countries, all the way back to 2012? Further, the claims behind this case may simply be untrue (we don’t mean that the journalists didn’t die).
Le Monde also put this out, via AFP, which appears to be the go-to source for this story —
French court issues arrest warrant for Assad over journalists’ deaths in Syria
Cute —
What a fucking joke!
Where’s the arrest warrant for Netanyahu you clowns!
🤡🤡😳https://t.co/ddlclQNCXW— John H aka Corvus coronoides (@knarfnamduh) September 2, 2025
So where’s France’s arrest warrant for @netanyahu who has killed significantly more journalists that they accuse Assad of? https://t.co/BZe5Ls65W2
— 🍀Michael Raveles🕊🏴🚩🍀🌹🌵🌹🌵🌹🌵 (@ravelesm) September 3, 2025
Recently, France’s Court of Cassation ruled that an arrest warrant for #Assad in 2021 was not valid due to him having “head of state immunity”
However, now that Assad is no longer president, the court signaled a new warrant could be issued https://t.co/Lg8NfTtiwQ pic.twitter.com/jU8LVaU3Ox
— Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (@SJAC_info) August 20, 2025
Echoes of the past where Lavrov slams France —
🇸🇾 WESTERN JUSTICE DEMONSTRATED THEIR BIAS says Lavrov as he slams hypocritical West as France issues arrest warrant for Syrian President Assad for 2013 false flag chemical weapons use against civilians – which the Russian FM rightly identifies as act of West and Turkey backed… pic.twitter.com/m2okDo3apq
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) November 17, 2023
France has been sorely trying to get arrest warrants against Assad. This isn’t their first rodeo by any stretch, possibly their third. In fact, in late July, France cancelled an earlier arrest warrant against Assad issued this January. We’re mightily confused.
The Soros connection —
France’s top court voided former Syrian President Assad’s arrest warrant due to head-of-state immunity at the time but confirmed a new one can be issued. It ruled functional immunity doesn’t bar Syria’s ex-leaders from atrocity trials. https://t.co/0I9kh6bdH4
— Open Society Justice Initiative (@OSFJustice) July 31, 2025
Of note from their July 2025 article on this —
Our organizations are civil parties in the investigation and have engaged along Syrian victims in documentation of atrocities and the fight against impunity.
It’s quite funny to see media reports on Twitter using harsh, uncompromising images of Assad.
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France Issues Arrest Warrant for Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
French courts take action against former Syrian President and senior ex-officials over the targeted bombing of foreign journalists.
AFP via THE EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVE
Lawyers said on Tuesday that French authorities have issued arrest warrants for former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and six senior ex-officials in connection with a 2012 attack on a rebel-held city that killed two journalists.
Marie Colvin, 56, an American journalist for The Sunday Times, and 28-year-old French photographer Rémi Ochlik were killed on February 22nd, 2012, in an explosion in the eastern city of Homs—a blast now under investigation by French authorities as a potential war crime and crime against humanity.
A mural depicting the coat of arms of the Syrian Arab Republic and portraits of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher al-Assad is pictured on a wall in a security compound in Damascus on January 7, 2025. Bakr Alkasem / AFP
Lawyers said on Tuesday that French authorities have issued arrest warrants for former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and six senior ex-officials in connection with a 2012 attack on a rebel-held city that killed two journalists.
Marie Colvin, 56, an American journalist for The Sunday Times, and 28-year-old French photographer Rémi Ochlik were killed on February 22nd, 2012, in an explosion in the eastern city of Homs—a blast now under investigation by French authorities as a potential war crime and crime against humanity.
British photographer Paul Conroy, French reporter Edith Bouvier, and Syrian translator Wael Omar were injured in the same attack at the informal press centre where they were working.
After being ousted by Islamist rebels at the end of 2024, Assad fled with his family to Russia, though his exact location remains unconfirmed.
Other than Assad, the warrants notably target his brother Maher al-Assad, who was the de facto head of the 4th Syrian armoured division at the time, intelligence chief Ali Mamlouk, and then-army chief of staff Ali Ayoub.
“The issuing of the seven arrest warrants is a decisive step that paves the way for a trial in France for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Bashar al-Assad’s regime,” said Clémence Bectarte, lawyer for the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Ochlik’s parents.
Source
Featured image source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/assad-says-russias-ukraine-invasion-a-correction-of-history/
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