PARIS, Nov 5, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – France has issued international arrest
warrants for three senior Syrian intelligence officials in connection with
the deaths of two Franco-Syrian nationals, legal sources said Monday.
The warrants, which target National Security Bureau director Ali Mamluk and
two others, were issued for “complicity in acts of torture”, “complicity in
crimes against humanity” and “complicity in war crimes”.
The warrants were issued on October 8 but made public only on Monday,
according to the International Federation for Human Rights advocacy group
(FIDH).
The other high-ranking officials sought are Jamil Hassan, head of the
Syrian air force’s intelligence agency, and Abdel Salam Mahmoud, in charge of
the air force intelligence’s investigative branch at the Mezzeh military
airport in Damascus.
They are wanted in connection with the disappearance of Mazen and Patrick
Dabbagh, a father and son, who were arrested in November 2013 and went
missing after being detained in the Mezzeh detention centre, according to the
FIDH.