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appeal had dismissed crimes against humanity, charles against the demons giant into a 1019 of that ruling have just been overturned by francis stop court. the father was accused of paying millions of dollars to fight, including i fail to keep its factory open. the company eventually last year in 2014 after i fell, seize its plant north, east of other po. it has admitted some mistakes, but denies the allegations. i guess it, the court of commissions decision does not mean the company will automatically face trial. but it's refer the matter back to investigating magistrates to reconsider the complicity charge, saying one can be complicit in crimes against humanity even if there's no intention of being associated with the crimes committed. it did knowingly paying several $1000000.00 for an organization house. so purpose was exclusively criminal,

suffices to consider us complicity, regardless of whether the party concerned was acting to pursue a commercial activity. the proceedings against the father are the result of a complaint filed by the french violence ministry. 11 former syrian employees and 2 n. jos. the company had evacuated its flooring stuff when it left the country, but kept some syrian employees kept. the mom would love them. we asked the company to stop the work, but they didn't stop the company, birth responsibility for all those who had a rested, killed or kidnapped them the whole 79, if you yes, it worked for and out you went from here to good to his work and i still arrested him and put him in jail. after 4 months we went to see you and asked about us in the opened his file and told us, executed him. the father is not the 1st month the national to be accused of similar

accusations. but such cases have rarely been brought to trial. 12 nigerians took energy giants shall to court in the us for its role in life, abuses in the niger delta. in the 1990s, the supreme court dismissed the case in 2013. thank it, did not have jurisdiction over the matter by screws. also, challenged company is suspected of concealing crimes against humanity in china, change young region. ah, let's bring in gas in paris. we have nothing to get if she is the soul of just and professor of the university of paris 8 and believe we have canal, the vita, a legal advisor, the european center focus, situational and human rights. one of the organizations that filed the complaint

against the boss in dough hammer, one cumberland head of policy analysis of the center for research and policy studies. welcome to the program. not sarah. how significant is the bullying that came out in paris from the course above the case of arch? i would say that it's a breakthrough. it's quite surprising, especially after the court of appeal decision. there's a place now 2 years ago and it's a very strong sign. and signal towards those that think that business as you, as usual, can go on, especially on the, on war, on war, france, in all kinds of places where wars i'll being wages by, especially occidental and western countries. so i would say that is quite striking, especially considering that yesterday was the 1st day of the 9 month long

trial of the people responsible for the attacks on november to 2015 in paris. so it has a very strong symbolic and political arrange. a canal with this has been a long ride for your organization. but do you think that you have reached a point where you could d, you could say it's just a matter of time before last fall face as the the, the main charge was chief complicity and crimes against humanity. as i would definitely say so, so it's a breakthrough. now we have to see, you know, the appeals courts will have to rule again on whether it was right in asking the constellation of discharge for crime, for complicity and crimes against humanity. so we will have to see how the new appeals court like newly composed, will deal with this request from the fashion. we know that it will do so. bearing

in mind the new interpretation of complicity that the supreme court yesterday ruled and which is we can go in detail about that if you want. but once the appeals court will confirm, once again will confirm. sorry, that's the indictments will complete. jim. crimes against humanity has to be maintained based on this new interpretation of complicity. we can hope for a trial not only on discharge of complicity for crimes against humanity, but also on the other charges, the financing officers and the prize and advancement of people's lives. model one, it's been almost like 10 years since the thought of the uprising in syria and many companies have been operating in areas widely accused of colluding with on groups including i feel this ruling does it put more emphasis now than ever on every international multi national company that was operating in

syria. absolutely right. i think it should delight it, shed some light to actually this elicit business between international companies and some violent groups and syria. but this particular case is unique in the sense that is dealing with the, with a company that, that has very strong ties to the french government. if you, if you, if we want to put this in into context, maybe we need to speak to bit about how important this project was actually for both products and to see the energy at the time when it was fierce. actually in 2008, a shop, the largest cement factory was the largest single forum investment project in city ever. it cost love us more than $680000000.00 at the time

actually to build one of the largest and most modern summit factory. natalie ensued . but in the middle east, the production of the fact that he was like 7 or 8000 tons of cement. and d. s. word of half a $1000000.00, while the huge investment actually buy by the french. and it was a joint venture between the french and businessmen who were very close to the city of egypt at the time. and because of this he was, and this meant the company actually did that. what actually to be that the back to the or leave it actually to be rooted or be ok. this massive by medicine. so they were actually key in to protected and to key, but an operation. they don't want to lose or doesn't the money that can visit at that time in cedar. so that was, this was what did this,

this is why it's so unique. ok, in the case of about the legal team of law, fudge is quite obvious. they were trying to scrap the crime against humanity charge against the by then the routing came out to the tours. another direction which is basically we'll, we'll have to magistrate, we'll have to re investigate the whole case. it could be a breakthrough, as you said earlier, but at the same time you could just open the window for us to bring about a stronger team in the near future and say, you know what, we're not to be held accountable at all. there's absolutely no strong evidence. we've been doing something bulgy in syria. yes, but i think they will have then to argue word by word sentence by sentence about what to the court of cas station just stated. and that makes the case very difficult for them. of course, they can bring to the trial,

very efficient and very savvy groups of lawyers, but they will have to face that at a moment where being the country and the home of defense, which is what france claims to be. i mean, the country of human rights is something that is more and more put into question and lafarge is giving this very strong expression, an example of how human rights were just put aside. and the, this company, this international company that is, has glo size to the french state as a, was just sad. just look the other way when it came to defending human rights. so the case is going to be very difficult for them to make whatever their bring in terms of the lawyers and money and influence also, and lobbying probably can fuzzies, a financial goliath in europe. they have

a huge resources. they have the backing of a government, but then was one of the key members of the tribe was when they said, you know, once we have the local stuff operating in syria and it is the one which should be held responsible for any mistakes as well as we are concerned the top ashland of the company based in paris, is absolutely nothing wrong that we did and how do you see that particular angle. so this argument they made in the judicial inquiry is a very typical recurring argument. multinationals make, try exonerate from their responsibility. they hide behind their complex structures and they hide behind the fact that they operate through subsidiaries that are abroad. and they pretend that they don't know what is happening in the subsidiaries, that they don't have the powers. the competence are the means to stop the actions of the subsidiaries abroad. windows actions may lead to the commission of crimes alter the fueling of credit crimes. and this argument, i must say,

we have reviewed it quite quite easily because the evidence in the file is extremely clear when it comes to payments. i have been made to several arm groups including ices. it is clear that the members of parents of the parent company in parents headquarters and parents were not only aware of those payments, but with some times instructing them to get there was a subsidiary. so there this argument that really doesn't hold any more and legally just hoss translators in the decision. nothing appeals courts which hasn't been put into question by the supreme, sorry, edition. yeah. haven't been put into question by the supreme court, which is that the parent company is indicted for the financing of centuries and price. although the payments had originated from the accounts offered subsidiary wrong, and the court indicted the parent company because he took into account the evidence

and the fine showing that they were informed. but it also mentioned, and this is a very strong element of this case. also, the anticipated mentioned that because the foster parent company has such a strong financial and operational control over its subsidiary. it wouldn't make sense legally to say that it cannot be held responsible for payments, criminal payments, pay my district, my $1.00 that is an international coalition against ice. it has its own counter isis finance group. and it has been pretty much trying to work out ways to, to disrupt the financial flows going towards these gross. do you think of this case in particular, could be conducive to a broader investigation where we might see multinational companies being held accountable for shoddy businesses with groups like i said, and other articles that were operating in areas in syria, particularly the north eastern northern part of the country and the south is some part of syria. absolutely. i think this time may be because usually they can

stay in particular because you are as, you know, shop americans while leading this war in order to undermine the network, the financial network, cost of tourism all over the world. did they usually focus on, on our companies and i mean, did they keep, come, come and go actually the doctor, the conclusion to disrupt and speak with the government, mind these, these networks. but sometimes you'll be surprised to see that some of the big wister companies like, for example, was very much into the business of financing. and, and also if you wanna, if you wanna look into another aspect of this, this issue, this issue, you can also see the link between the french government and bosh, and y p g. because i mean that the french have been,

you have been relying very much and also the going very much the way it was also considered by other companies in the region such as a 3rd organization they were relying on didn't know that to protect the boston a c a so i think we have to look pretty carefully into ok and to all sort of business activities of these companies. not only in terms of financing, but also in terms of the legs that are having with other non state actors in the region, like the white, the ship works on nothing. you spoke about the, the crucial timing of the ruining, because it coincides the same time with the trial, the main suspect of the rampage that killed 130 people in, in france, in 2000. and 15. could this be a moment where the judges the course with say, you know what, it's about time to tackle this because this is a serious issue that could also ultimately have serious ramifications allows itself

. yes, i think that what it brings to the picture is the complexity of what was happening back then. at the beginning of the uprising in syria, the way it was repressed, of course, by the syrian state, the way ices eventually became and prevailed in syria. but this means that they hit as ramification all across the region, all the way through the mediterranean 2 pairs. and this is also important to, to strike the fact that we cannot think in terms of war and terror. this era that we entered in 2001 and that we are still living in without including all parts that took advantage of these wars that raise their own

prosperity on these wars. and this is something that might change the backdrop of the trial. that is happening right now in pairs and bring into the picture. things that usually are caps aside or that are overlooked. for that, a lot of states would just want to turn a blind eye on, and this has to be part of the picture. now the complexity and all the interests that to part into what led to the rampaging nurse, but more widely, to all these wars and their casualties cannot navigating through the judicial system all over the world is a very complex task, as you know. but do you see an opening here where active is could say, you know what, it's about time to focus on companies operating in areas where the human rights violation and abuse, as we've seen a case now being brought to gas companies operating in chines young work is that they're saying basically how can you operate in a face where the wiggle community is been prosecuted by the chinese government?

yes, i think really this case has the potential to encourage foster in or ongoing cases on corporate accountability against multinational, but also maybe encourage other people to take initiative like that you were talking about the org worst case. there's also a case pending before the international criminal court related to the responsibility of armed strangers from different european countries who persist in exporting weapons to sonya ravia and the united arab emirates. although those 2 countries are meeting the coalition that appears to have committed systematic attacks on civilians in yemen. so i think now the ruling, the supreme court gave yesterday is really great to inform the way those cases by the different courts concerned by one. these are companies middleman people working

in the and under ground some of the not created with huge organizations with governance. we've seen in the past many evidences directing to word very high profile people who were dealing with the syrian government, with eyes when it comes to shipments of oil. but ultimately, you don't get a sense that the international community is more willing to move forward and bring all these people accountable. what's the general sentiment among the syrian people? when you look at this particular case, says that go somehow i'm punished by the international community. where shall i think of this? but i mean, we need maybe to look at doc, disagree, the picture of the war economy that has been actually matching and see over the past 10 years in which as you said, we have so many warlords. we have so many amended men in fact profiting on the expense of those people actually have used by during the war. and i think

we to think about how, how a disk to go stage. we need to we need to, to focus on, on transition justice for those people who, why would that like, actually has been destroyed by this, by this war and by these also business activities, by, by the warlords, by the middle men and by the companies wiped the namely on the sand about how to make out of this, this war. but at this point of the crisis, most people right now stand about keeping the peace and try to leash comprehensive cease fire to the conflict and cd. because as you know, over the past few weeks, there has been a renewal of transportation in the,

in the south and bottle studio mainly. and we see almost daily bombardment of, of civilian neighborhoods and it live in that. and then so i know most people are focusing on how actually to stop this conflict or start dealing with the other aspects of including transitional justice. and i think people actually get deadlock, nothing. you have the ethics and you have the greedy companies looking for profit and both collide, most of the time. but do you think that this could be the moment whether the men time should be building 2 words, rewriting the laws internationally to put an end to the practice of the companies taking advantage of cover from their own governments. to take money from people in countries will face distraction and death.

yes, absolutely. but i think that we have them the tools and the means to do that. it's just that so far, this kind of international companies such as the fog and others, just feel that the national and international laws were not made for them, that they could just get away with it and just find ways to bypass any kind of control. and so the decision of the court of guess you is, is the most meaningful in that respect, because it means that they cannot, they're all just as any other entity. and they can fall under the rule and the, and the strength of these, of these laws and of these different bodies of, of jurisdiction. and this is something quite striking and might be mighty open new

paths for those entities and international companies that rely on the laws of capitalism. so that they become accountable for to, for the crimes that they take part in kind of, you know, the as a legal advisor, that ultimately you would have to deal with companies affiliated with government. they have loads of cash, and they have a cover and they have the backing of strong governments all over the world. you feel like that we have reached the point where n g o z will be more equipped. we'll have more backing, particularly from the people all over the well to put an end to the practice of great companies working in war zones. so we are gathering experiences where gathering expertise on what are the obstacles that are faced in those traditional proceedings. and we surely, i think get better in anticipating those, those obstacles. but when it comes to governments and to the fact that governments

are also linked sometimes to those business activities. i think we're seeing this trend. trend in the business and human rights movement more and more in those cases of corporate accountability usually do not only in the company, but also sometimes have the support of states. for instance, i was talking about those arms exports cases earlier. their arms exports or arms. traders are given export licenses by governments. we also know in cases relates to to, to climate change or to pollution. that's industrial exploitation projects and also initiate from licenses to, to a bank if you go into the land or 2. so this is definitely a trend, minute 24. can al, love return. the good of and model won't come on. i really appreciate your insight and looking forward to talking to you in the near future and thank you to for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com for further discussion. go to our facebook page, that's facebook dot com,

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