Posted on 06/29/2018 2:13:24 AM PDT by blueplum
French cement giant Lafarge was charged Thursday with complicity in crimes against humanity and financing terrorists for paying millions to jihadists, including the Islamic State group, to keep a factory open in war-torn Syria.
The company, whose Syrian subsidiary allegedly paid the armed groups through middlemen, has also been charged with endangering the lives of former employees at the cement plant in Jalabiya, northern Syria. {snip}
Lafarge is suspected of paying nearly 13 million euros ($16 million) to IS and other militant groups to keep the Jalabiya plant running long after other French companies had pulled out of Syria.
The payments by the Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS) subsidiary were considered a "tax" in exchange for...
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Did Hillary have foreign cement company connection during Watergate?
WOW... another cement company...
wonder if any connections to CEMEX??
The Obama Whitehouse created and armed ISIS.
But sure, let’s go after a French concrete firm.
If they didn’t keep the cement plant open then they would be accused of racism or some such for denying Syrians access to vital building materials.
They should have stuck to their knitting.
The French socialists are tougher on a cement company that was forced to pay protection than they are on the ISIS thugs running the racquet. People get killed?They’d blame capitalism before Islam.
LaFarge was merely tending to their kntting.
It’s hard to argue that LaFarge was actually in the wrong here. If they had pulled out could you imagine the outcry from the left from people who would say they were denying White Helmets and refugees building materials to put their lives back together?
LaFarge was likely acting on instructions from the French government trying as hard as it could to maintain French presence in Syria.
I take it as French meddling in current affairs beyond it’s reach
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