Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Lafarge paid 13 million euros to armed groups to keep operating in Syria - rights group

PARIS: French cement group Lafarge paid close to 13 million euros to armed groups including Islamic State militants to keep operating in Syria from 2011-2015, human rights lawyers said on Tuesday. They were speaking at a news conference on the course of French prosecutors' preliminary inquiry into Lafarge's operations launched in June on suspicion of "financing of a terrorist enterprise".

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