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Lafarge agrees to pay 778 million dollars to U.S. justice

18 October 2022

A drawn-out judiciary procedure which involved world leading cement manufacturer Lafarge SA ended with the company pleading guilty, in a U.S. district court, for having allowed its employees in Syria to provide material support and resources to ISIS. It will have to pay a fine of 778 million (…)

France torches Lafarge cement plant in Syria

17 October 2019

On 16 October 2019, the International Coalition set fire to the French-owned Lafarge Cement Factory in Jalabiyeh (on the Turkish border, north of Aleppo) before the arrival of the Syrian Arab Army in the area.
Thus, the traces of a secret operation of crucial importance have literally gone (…)

LaFarge: a concrete source for Daesh

13 July 2018

Fresh evidence has been handed over to the judicial investigation that is being conducted in Paris, into LaFarge’s activities. The new evidence is that in Syria, Daesh had made requests to purchase cement and was ready to buy LaFarge’s factory so that it could continue to produce cement for (…)

Lafarge suspected of cement support for Daesh

2 July 2018

The judges leading the La Farge investigation and specifically tasked with examining the conduct of the cement company Lafarge with its factories in Syria, have put the multinational company under inquiry on four counts: • for “violating an embargo” • “endangering the lives of others” and • (…)

Lafarge was working for the French Secret Services in Syria

28 April 2018

The French judicial investigation into the relationship between the French group Lafarge and jihadist groups committed to destabilizing the Syrian government, has just shed light on the close ties between this transnational and the French Secret Services.
Lafarge is a transnational group whose (…)

The Lafarge Scandal: the next installment

15 December 2017

Sherpa is an NGO that represents the former workers of the cement group Lafarge-Holcim in Syria. It has initiated legal proceedings against the multinational after an article was published in the Monde on the company’s relations with jihadists [3].
Six executives and directors of the cement (…)

Interview with Thierry Meyssan

A closer look at the Sarkozy and Lafarge cases

by Serge Marchand

Damascus (Syria) | 21 October 2017

If the press is no longer interested in the expanded Middle East after the fall of Raqqa, which it wrongly interprets as the defeat of jihadism, French judges are now working on two cases that have come from the East: one is Libya’s alleged funding of Nicolas Sarkozy’s electoral campaign and the (…)

Revelations – Lafarge-Holcim’s jihad

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 24 March 2017

On the occasion of the release of Thierry Meyssan’s new book , «Right Before our Eyes. From 9/11 to Donald Trump», we are publishing a series of articles which develop a few of the numerous points he mentions.
After the comments by Jean-Luc Mélenchon during the debate for the French (…)

Lafarge-Holcim e-mails

24 March 2017

These emails have been first uploaded by Zaman al-Wasl (an anti-Syria group sponsorised by the Turkish secret service, Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı). Then removed from its website. It is impossible to verify their authenticity.