French court jails Lafarge former CEO for funding IS in Syria
France 24 →A French court on Monday fined the cement group Lafarge over $1.3 million and sentenced its former boss to six years in prison for paying protection money to the Islamic State group and other jihadists to maintain its business in war-torn Syria.
Seven Years in Jail for Ex-French Paymaster-General Was Convicted
Paris, March 25.--Colonel Francois Desclaux, ex-Paymaster General of the French Army, charged with stealing military stores, was convicted today and sentenced to seven years solitary confinement and to military degradation. It was ordered that his name be removed from the list of the Legion of Honor. Nine Bechoff, the wife of a German, in whose house the stolen goods were found, was also found guilty by the court-martial and sentenced to two years imprisonment.
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