Paris court sentences three Syrian officials in absentia for war crimes
Activists hold Syrian flags next to portraits of alleged victims of the Syrian regime, during a demonstration at a court in Paris .
A Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison on Friday for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad and the first such case on European soil.
The trial focused on the officials’ role in the alleged arrest, torture and killing in 2013 in Damascus of Mazen Dabbagh, a Franco-Syrian father, and his son Patrick.
