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French judges issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and six Syrian officials for the 2012 attack that killed journalists, including Marie Colvin. The investigation found the officials likely guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The warrants constrain the accused's travel, particularly in the EU.
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- French judges issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and six Syrian officials for the 2012 attack that killed journalists, including Marie Colvin. The investigation found the officials likely guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The warrants constrain the accused's travel, particularly in the EU.
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Mr. al-Assad and his family fled to Russia last December.Credit...Nicole Tung for The New York TimesBy Marlise SimonsReporting from ParisSept. 2, 2025French judges have issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad, the former Syrian ruler, and six senior officials of his ousted regime, for killing and wounding a group of journalists, including the American Marie Colvin, in 2012, during the Syrian civil war.Ms. Colvin, 56, a reporter for the British newspaper The Sunday Times, and R\u00e9mi Ochlik, 28, a French freelance photographer, were killed when artillery struck a building in Homs where journalists had set up a makeshift media center. Three others were wounded. Colleagues suspected that Syrian forces had located the journalists by tracing their satellite phone signals.The judges of the French War Crimes Unit who investigated the attack found that the seven men named in the warrants were likely to be guilty of a war crime and a crime against humanity, according to the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights, which is involved in the case. The warrants were issued on Aug. 22 but first revealed on Tuesday by the federation; the judges, themselves, have not made any public statement.The French investigation revealed that the Syrian officials ordered the targeting of civilians during the brutal siege of the city of Homs, regarded as a rebel stronghold, and that there was a Syrian government policy to stop international journalists from covering the conflict, said Cl\u00e9mence Bectarte, a lawyer for the human rights group and for the parents of Mr. Ochlik.\u201cThe judges had access to documents from the security services at the time ordering that journalists be followed and intercepted at checkpoints,\u201d she said. Even so, some foreign reporters and photographers managed to slip into the city to cover the carnage and the destruction there.Mr. al-Assad and his family fled to Russia last December, and the whereabouts of the six other accused officials are unknown, but under French law they can be tried in absentia.ImageFuneral services for the journalist Marie Colvin, in Oyster Bay, N.Y., in 2012. She was killed when artillery struck a building in Homs, Syria.Credit...Uli Seit for The New York TimesMarie Colvin, an Intrepid War CorrespondentMs. Colvin, who was interviewed live on CNN just hours before her death, had perhaps the highest international profile of the well over 100 journalists killed in almost 14 years of war in Syria. A great majority of those journalists were Syrian, while at least 15, including Mr. Ochlik and Ms. Colvin, were foreign, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.After the attack in Homs, which was widely reported at the time, fewer foreign journalists risked going to Syria, restricting the world\u2019s view into the atrocities committed there.Ms. Colvin, a native of New York, was an experienced, risk-taking chronicler of armed conflict, having covered wars in Chechnya, Sri Lanka, Kosovo and elsewhere. In 2001 in Sri Lanka, she lost the use of her left eye to a rocket-propelled grenade, and wore an eye patch afterward. Her remarkable career has been recounted in multiple books and films, including the movie \u201cA Private War,\u201d in which she was portrayed by Rosamund Pike.In 2019, Ms. Colvin\u2019s family won a judgment of more than $300 million in a court in Washington, D.C., against the Syrian government for targeting and killing the journalist. The Assad regime had said she had been killed by an improvised explosive device, suggesting that rebels were responsible \u2014 a claim refuted by other journalists who survived the attack in Homs.Wounded in the attack were Paul Conroy, a British photographer for The Sunday Times who worked with Ms. Colvin; a Syrian translator, Wael Omar, and a French freelance reporter who was on assignment for Le Figaro, Edith Bouvier.French police have recently created a special unit in charge of tracking fugitives wanted by French courts, said Ms. Bectarte, the lawyer. In the case of Syria, French authorities have issued 21 arrest warrants for officials, now including three for Mr. Assad.Most immediately, the arrest warrants constrain the travel of the accused, particularly in the European Union, whose members are bound by treaties to cooperate with each other in judicial cases. The warrants are also expected to be distributed by Interpol throughout the world, but some countries do not honor them.ImageProtesters during a demonstration in Paris against the Syrian government in 2012. The placard on the right displays a portrait of the French photojournalist R\u00e9mi Ochlik, who also died in Homs.Credit...Thibault Camus\/Associated PressThe civil war killed more than 600,000 people, including almost 200,000 civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which closely tracks events there. In addition, the Assad regime\u2019s ruthless security apparatus killed tens of thousands of activists, dissidents and journalists, many of them within its notorious prisons. Multiple mass graves have been discovered holding countless anonymous bodies.France, with historic ties to Syria, has taken a special interest in the fate of the country, post-Assad. France ruled Syria under a League of Nations mandate from 1923 to 1946.French warrants were also issued for one of Mr. al-Assad\u2019s brothers, Maher al-Assad, a key figure and once the de facto commander of the Syrian Army\u2019s 4th Division; Ali Ayoub, former chief of staff of the Syrian Army; Ali Mamlouk, former leader of Syrian intelligence services; Ghassan Bilal, chief of the security office of the 4th Division; Mohamed Dib Zaitoun, former chief of the General Security Directorate; and Rafik Mahmoud Shahadah, former head of security for the military and security committee in Homs.Marlise Simons is a correspondent in the Paris bureau, focusing\u00a0on international justice and war-crimes tribunals. 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Syria After Civil WarThe LatestSyriaβs FutureInside Sednaya PrisonDisappeared ChildrenSectarian TensionsLife After the WarInterview With PresidentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTAssad and Aides Are Wanted in France for Deadly Strike on JournalistsJudges issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and six officials of his regime in Syria for an attack that killed two journalists, including Marie Colvin.Listen to this article Β· 5:27 min Learn moreShare full articleA damaged plaque with an image of former President Bashar al-Assad of Syria outside an abandoned base in Quneitra Governorate, Syria, in August. Mr. al-Assad and his family fled to Russia last December.Credit...Nicole Tung for The New York TimesBy Marlise SimonsReporting from ParisSept. 2, 2025French judges have issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad, the former Syrian ruler, and six senior officials of his ousted regime, for killing and wounding a group of journalists, including the American Mar...
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Simplified: French judges issued arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and six officials for an attack that killed two journalists including Marie Colvin
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Journalism , War π a11622fb-e2ed-40b1-80f0-79e195b07926Simplified: Marie Colvin and RΓ©mi Ochlik were killed when artillery struck a building in Homs
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Casualties , Conflict π a114b5a3-9094-4aa8-9559-9d2983f648a3Simplified: At least 20 wounded were in critical condition
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Legal , War Crimes π a11622fc-01b8-4a09-b68d-d81bf755045cSimplified: Judges found seven men named in warrants were likely guilty of war crime and crime against humanity
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Simplified: Warrants were issued on August 22
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Simplified: French investigation revealed Syrian officials ordered targeting of civilians during siege of Homs and a policy to stop international journalists
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Simplified: Marie Colvin's family won judgment of more than $300 million against Syrian government in 2019
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ War , Statistics π a11622fc-6b6a-4353-9cd2-74316c6b3aecSimplified: Civil war killed more than 600000 people including almost 200000 civilians
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Simplified: Assad regime killed tens of thousands of activists dissidents and journalists
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Simplified: Marlise Simons is a correspondent in Paris bureau