Overview
- After four weeks of hearings, national anti‑terror prosecutors presented their requisitions, with defense arguments scheduled through December 19 and a decision expected in 2026.
- Lafarge and eight former executives are charged with financing terrorist enterprises, with some defendants also accused of violating international financial sanctions.
- Prosecutors say several million euros were funneled via Lafarge Cement Syria to ISIS and Jabhat al‑Nosra to keep the Jalabiya plant running, which ISIS seized in September 2014 after foreign staff were pulled out in 2012.
- The court examined internal emails and reports described as damaging, while the defense argued the payments were extortion and saw its claim of tacit official approval challenged.
- The company faces up to €1.125 million for terrorism financing and potentially higher fines for embargo breaches, and individuals face up to 10 years in prison and €225,000, as Lafarge’s separate $778 million U.S. settlement remains distinct from the French case.