The political coordinator of France to the United Nations, Isis Jarrod d’Arnaud, said during a session of the Security Council: The Assad regime uses systematic torture, both physical and psychological, in its prisons, in addition to sexual violence against female detainees.
The coordinator added that combating Assad’s impunity is a priority for France, stressing the need to hold accountable the perpetrators of heinous crimes in Syria against the defenseless people.
Isis continued by saying: Resolution 2254 adopted by the Security Council set the rules for a lasting peace that the Syrians aspire to, while the Syrian regime ignores and rejects any peaceful political solution that guarantees a peaceful transfer of power in Syria.
Darno also called on the Assad regime to take serious and real steps towards a political solution, adding that the continuation of the situation thus exacerbates the situation of the Syrians, and also called for renewing the authorization for the entry of aid through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey for a full year.
A French court had already sentenced the criminal Rifaat al-Assad in absentia to 4 years in prison for his crimes. Some European countries also tried a number of perpetrators of massacres against the Syrian people, but this did not live up to the aspirations of the Syrians to try the Assad regime and its head, Bashar.
