French justice is "
incompetent
" to prosecute for complicity in crimes against humanity an ex-soldier of the Syrian regime, this crime does not exist in the law of this country which is not a signatory of the Rome Statute, estimated the Court of cassation in a judgment delivered Wednesday.
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The court was seized of the case of Abdulhamid C., 32, who served between 2011 and 2013 in units of the State Security of the regime of Bashar al-Assad known for their abuses on civilians, in particular during the demonstrations preludes to the civil war.
He claims his innocence.
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