Staff leaking classified information about the Douma chemical attack

ARK News: The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that an investigation conducted by it revealed that two of its former employees leaked classified information about the attack that targeted the city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta in April 2018.

"The inspectors are not informants ... they are two people who have been unable to accept that their point of view is not supported by evidence," said the organization's president, Fernando Arias.

Arias announced an internal investigation in late May to look into the leak of an internal document that confirmed the organization's findings regarding the Douma attack in April 2018 that killed 40 people.

A statement issued by the organization on the results of the investigation, issued on Thursday, 6 February, described "intentional breaches of confidentiality".

The statement did not mention the names of the accused employees, and indicated that the investigation was carried out by "independent and professional investigators from outside the organization."

The organization indicated that the employees refused to participate in the investigation, which was based on interviews with 29 witnesses between July 2019 and the current February.
On April 7, 2018, the city of Douma was subjected by a chemical attack, killing 60 people, and suffocating a thousand others.

Source: Aleppo Today

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