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France’s top court annuls arrest warrant against Syria’s Assad

The Court of Cassation ruled there were no exceptions to presidential immunity, even for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity
Judge Soulard, added that, as Assad was no longer president after an Islamist-led group toppled him in December, “new arrest warrants can have been, or can be, issued against him“

By AFP · 25 July 2025