France issues an international arrest warrant for Syrian intelligence officers

ARK News: The French judiciary has issued an international arrest warrant for three intelligence officers of the Syrian regime on charges of "war crimes".

According to the French daily Le Monde reported on Monday (November 5th), the three officers include the head of the Syrian national security office, Major General Ali Mamluk.

Le Monde added that the arrest warrant was issued by the French investigating judge, who charged the three officers with "crimes against humanity", "war crimes", their involvement in enforced disappearances and brutal torture of detainees.

The newspaper did not mention the names of the two other officers, noting only that they were senior officials in the Syrian intelligence.

The arrest warrant was issued against the background of photographs of the "Seizer", which was leaked by a dissident officer in the Syrian intelligence in 2013, which is about 50 thousand images leaked by the officer of detainees in the prisons of the regime which were tortured and starving and torturing their bodies.

According to the French newspaper, the decision "is unprecedented in France", and it is the first time issued an international arrest warrant against senior officials of the Syrian regime, since the start of the conflict in Syria.

Ali Mamluk is considered one of the most important pillars of the Syrian regime and supervises the security services. He is also considered the "black box" that contains the secrets of Syrian intelligence. He served as director of state security between 2005 and 2012, and then to take over the post of head of the Syrian national security office.

The European Union imposed economic sanctions on Ali Mamluk in May 2011 for his involvement in the violence against peaceful demonstrators who took out against the Syrian regime in March of the same year.

The owner of lawsuits in several countries, , but none of them have yet to be sentenced, has been prosecuted

Mamluk faces of many lawsuits in several countries, including Italy, but none of them has not issued a judgment against him, hitherto.

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