The first trial in France of officials from the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad opened on Tuesday (May 21), with three top security officers tried in absentia for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Paris Criminal Court is hearing cases against the officials for their role in the deaths of two French Syrian men, Mazzen Dabbagh and his son Patrick, arrested in Damascus in 2013.
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