Lafarge Syria: Terrorism's French Connection, Officially Sanitized
The New Arab reports Lafarge is on trial in France for financing ISIS and other jihadist groups in Syria to keep its cement plant running. This tidy narrative centers on corporate greed. Yet, the same Western powers now prosecuting Lafarge were, simultaneously, fueling a proxy war in Syria that created the vacuum for groups like ISIS to flourish. French intelligence agencies were reportedly aware
of Lafarge's payments as early as 2014, even as France itself was bombing ISIS targets. So, a company pays terrorists to operate in a warzone created and exacerbated by international meddling, and the 'justice system' focuses on the company's malfeasance, not the state-level policies that enabled it. One might wonder if Lafarge's real crime wasn't financing terror, but simply getting caught doing
what everyone else was arguably doing, albeit less directly. How many 'war profiteers' avoid scrutiny when their profits align with geopolitical objectives?