{"id":57548,"date":"2015-09-30T13:32:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T10:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=57548"},"modified":"2015-09-30T13:35:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T10:35:39","slug":"france-launches-war-crimes-probe-into-syrian-regime-57548","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/france-launches-war-crimes-probe-into-syrian-regime-57548\/","title":{"rendered":"France launches war crimes probe into Syrian regime"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FranceFrance has revealed that it is investigating Syrian President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime for alleged war crimes committed between 2011 and 2013.<\/h1>\n

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters in New York that the French authorities have opened a probe as major powers, including those from Russia and the U.S., clashed over Syria\u2019s future at the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n

According to French daily Le Figaro, Paris prosecutors launched the criminal probe in mid-September after a request from the French Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n

The French daily reported on Wednesday that investigators are using some 55,000 graphic photographs provided by a former Syrian army photographer known as \u2018Caesar\u2019.<\/p>\n

The photographer defected and fled the country in 2013.<\/p>\n

Fabius said: “Faced with these crimes that offend the human conscience, to this bureaucratic horror [and] faced with this denial of the values of humanity, it is our responsibility to act against the impunity of the assassins.”<\/p>\n

The investigation comes amid discussions over the ongoing Syrian war at the UN in New York.<\/p>\n

On Monday, French President Francois Hollande excluded a role for Assad in any political solution to the conflict.<\/p>\n

“We cannot make the victim and the executioner work together,” Hollande told the UN (Anadolu Agency)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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