{"id":89508,"date":"2023-05-23T06:33:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T10:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insiderpaper.com\/?p=89508"},"modified":"2023-05-23T06:33:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T10:33:41","slug":"syrias-assad-should-be-tried-france-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insiderpaper.com\/syrias-assad-should-be-tried-france-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria’s Assad should be tried: France foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad<\/a> should be put on trial following “hundreds of thousands of deaths” and “chemical arms use” during the country’s civil war, the French foreign minister said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Asked during a television interview if she wanted Assad to be tried, Catherine Colonna said “the answer is yes,” adding that “the battle against crime, against impunity is part of French diplomacy.”<\/p>\n Assad last week returned to the regional scene with an appearance at a summit of the Arab League, an international organization he had been banned from for a decade.<\/p>\n Colonna nevertheless said Paris would not be changing its policy towards the Syrian ruler.<\/p>\n “We have to remember who Bashar al-Assad is. He’s a leader who has been the enemy of his own people for more than 10 years,” she said.<\/p>\n