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Claimants still want civil cases brought against Lafarge Syria

18 September 2024, Published under Cement News

A report in The Guardian newspaper suggests that the US$778m fine imposed on Lafarge by the Justice Department over the payments the cement producer made to IS in Syria, so that it could keep trading, is likely to “throw open the doors to still more legal trouble”. Amal Clooney and other lawyers in the US are suing Lafarge for its aid to IS. However, prosecuting multinational corporations for war crimes is extremely difficult as to the extent of what they knew and their collaboration, whi...