The ruling could establish a precedent to allow the prosecution of other government leaders linked to atrocities.
The highest court in France will declare whether it can strip Bashar al-Assad's state immunity, the Syrian leader in exile in Russia, due to the brutal scale of brutal evidence in accusations documented by European Syrian and fiscal activists.
If COUSATION COUR JUDGES RAISE AL-ASSAD IMMUNITY On Friday, he could pave the way to his trial in absence about the use of chemical weapons in Ghouta in 2013 and Douuma in 2018.
It could also establish a precedent to allow the prosecution of other government leaders linked to atrocities, human rights activists and lawyers say.
Al-Assad has not retained lawyers for these positions and has denied that he was behind the chemical attacks.
The opposition has long rejected Al-Assad's denial, since his forces were the only side in the ruinous civil war of almost 14 years that Sarin possesses.
A decision against Al-Assad would be “a great victory for the victims,” said Mazen Darwish, president of the Syrian Media Center and Freedom of Expression, which compiled evidence of war crimes, cited by the Associated Press news agency.
“It's not just about Syrians; this will open the door to the victims of any country and this will be the first time that a national investigation judge has the right to issue an arrest warrant for a president during his rule.”
He said that the ruling could allow his group to legally chase the members of the Government, such as launching a case of money laundering against the former governor of the Syrian Central Bank and Minister of Economy Adib Mayaleh, whose lawyers have argued that he had immunity under international law.
Brutal repression
For more than 50 years, Syria was governed by Hafez Al-Assad and then her son, Bashar.
During the Arab spring, the rebellion broke out against its government in 2011 throughout the country of 23 million, lighting a brutal civil war that killed more than half a million people, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR). Millions more fled to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkiye and Europe.
The Al-Assad dynasty also encouraged sectarian tensions to stay in power, a legacy that drives recent violence renewed in Syria against minority groups, despite the promises that the country's new leaders will forge a political future for Syria that includes and represents all its communities.
As the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest orders for leaders accused of atrocities, such as the Vladimir Putin of Russia in Ukraine, Benjamin Netanyahu de Israel in Gaza, and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines in the Philippines, the decision of the French judges could promote the legal frame The power.
The Syrian government denied in 2013 that it was behind Ghouta's attack, but the United States subsequently threatened military reprisals, then comply with an agreement with Moscow so that Al-Assad renounce its reserve of chemical weapons, opening the way for Russia to be a great influence in the nation devastated by the war.
Al-Assad survived more than a decade more, helped militarily through Iranian Russia and aligned groups, including Hezbollah, before being overthrown by rebel groups.
