A French court issued arrest warrants for Syria’s former president, Bashar al-Assad, alongside six other top former Syrian officials, over the assassination of two journalists during the bombardments of a rebel-held city in 2012, French media reports said Tuesday.
Marie Colvin, 56, an American working for The Sunday Times of Britain, and French photographer Rémi Ochlik, 28, were killed on February 22, 2012, by an explosion in the eastern city of Homs.
The attack targeted a press center where British photographer Paul Conroy, French reporter Edith Bouvier, and Syrian translator Wael Omar, who were injured, were also working.
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