STOCKHOLM: Swedish prosecutors on Thursday said they had asked a Stockholm court to remand in custody a 51-year-old woman suspected of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Yazidis in Syria.
The woman, who has been active in the Daesh group since around 2000, was sentenced by a Swedish court to six years in prison in 2022 for making it possible for her 12-year-old son to be recruited as a child soldier for Daesh, Swedish Radio reported.
She is now suspected of crimes against the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority in 2014-2016 in Raqqa, then the capital of Daesh in Syria.
“The investigation concerns events in Raqqa, Syria from August 2014 to December 2016,” prosecutor Reena Devgun said in a statement from the Prosecution Authority.
She provided no other details of the alleged crimes.
In her 2022 conviction, the woman was also found guilty of aggravated war crimes and aggravated crimes against international law, Swedish Radio said.
Sweden’s principle of universal jurisdiction allows it to try a case regardless of where the offenses took place.
Daesh woman in Sweden suspected of genocide against Yazidis: prosecutors
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Daesh woman in Sweden suspected of genocide against Yazidis: prosecutors
- She is now suspected of crimes against the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi minority in 2014-2016 in Raqqa
- “The investigation concerns events in Raqqa, Syria from August 2014 to December 2016,” prosecutor Reena Devgun said
France’s Macron accepts resignation of Louvre museum chief after jewel theft
- Des Cars has faced intense criticism since burglars made off in October with jewels worth an estimated $102m
- Strikes over pay and conditions since December have also led to regular closures
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron accepted the resignation on Tuesday of the head of Paris’ Louvre museum, which has been grappling with the fallout from a high-profile jewel heist and rolling strikes.
Laurence des Cars tendered her resignation, which Macron accepted, “praising an act of responsibility at a time when the world’s largest museum needs calm and a strong new impetus to successfully carry out major projects involving security and modernization,” his office said.
Des Cars has faced intense criticism since burglars made off in October with jewels worth an estimated $102 million that are still missing, exposing glaring security gaps at the world’s most-visited museum.
Strikes over pay and conditions since December have also led to regular closures and added to a list of woes that included two water leaks as well as a massive ticket fraud investigation.
Critics including the state auditors’ office have questioned the museum’s low spending on security and infrastructure maintenance while it made lavish purchases of new artwork, only a quarter of which is open to the public, and spent heavily on post-pandemic relaunch projects.
