AhlulBayt News Agency: The French anti-terror prosecutor’s office has launched two investigations into “complicity in genocide” and “incitement to genocide”, targeting French-Israeli citizens suspected of blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza and the Israeli army’s wartime conduct.
The prosecutor’s office stated that the probes were initiated following two separate legal complaints, aiming to investigate possible complicity in crimes against humanity between January and May 2024.
Several sources familiar with the cases told AFP that this marks the first time France has opened investigations into Israeli violations of international law in Gaza.
One of the investigations was prompted by a complaint filed in November by the Jewish French Union for Peace (UFJP) and a French-Palestinian victim, accusing French members of hardline right-wing groups “Israel is Forever” and “Tzav 9” of physically preventing aid trucks from passing through Israeli-controlled border checkpoints.
In a separate case made public on the same day, the grandmother of two French children allegedly killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza filed a legal complaint in Paris, accusing Israel of genocide and murder, according to her lawyer.
The French judiciary has jurisdiction over cases involving French citizens, allowing these investigations to proceed.
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