The former head of diplomacy Laurent Fabius heard as a witness

The former head of diplomacy Laurent Fabius was heard as a witness in the investigation into suspicions of financing of terrorism
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Syria and affirmed not to have been informed of the activities of the cement, learned Monday the AFP of close source of the file.

Heard on July 20 as a witness by the examining magistrates, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of 2012 to 2016, and current president of the Constitutional Council, argued that "no information" had been received concerning the retention of Lafarge in Syria at the cost of financial arrangements with armed groups including Daesh, according to his hearing revealed by The World and consulted by AFP

"No precise recollection"

"I have never been seized of a question concerning Lafarge", badured Laurent Fabius . "If the question is to know whether or not I knew there was a Lafarge factory in Syria, I have no precise recollection."

In the summer of 2013, as French diplomacy comes to the fore with the administration of US President Obama to bring down Bashar al-Assad, Lafarge is the only French company still present in Syria. For several months, the investigation raises questions about what knew or not the authorities at the top of the state on the actions of Lafarge, indicted for "financing a terrorist enterprise" and "complicity in crimes against the humanity. "

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