Majdi Nema, a 35-year-old Syrian, former spokesperson for the armed group Jaysh al-Islam (JAI), will be tried at the Paris Assizes for complicity in war crimes. The group is suspected of the December 9, 2013 kidnapping of four human rights activists, including Syrian lawyer and journalist Razan Zeitouneh, who were never found.
The Court of Cassation recalls that to uphold the crime of forced disappearance, “a positive act and direct participation of those in power” would be required.