Lawmaker slams inaction of France over Lafarge’s funding of ISIS
ANKARA (AA) – A French lawmaker on Tuesday slammed the inaction of France over cement giant Lafarge’s financing of the ISIS, also called Daesh.
“The US has penalized Lafarge for financing Daesh. What about France?” Clementine Autain questioned on Twitter, after Lafarge pleaded guilty to aiding the group in a US court.
Noting that she appealed to the government on the issue “so many times” but her efforts were “in vain,” Autain said: “Silence and inaction are culpable.”
Lafarge will pay more than $777.8 million after pleading guilty to US charges of providing material support to two designated groups, the US Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
Lafarge paid the groups from 2013 through 2014 for protection and to allow the continued operation of a cement plant in northern Syria run by Lafarge’s local subsidiary, Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS). In total, nearly $6 million was sent to the two groups, according to prosecutors.
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