French judicial authorities have issued arrest warrants for ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six other former senior government officials in connection with the bombing of a rebel-held town in 2012 that killed two journalists, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported, quoted by BTA.
Fifty-six-year-old American Marie Colvin, who worked for the British newspaper “Sunday Times“, and 28-year-old French photojournalist Remi Ochlik died on February 22, 2012, in an explosion in the eastern city of Homs, which is being investigated by French prosecutors as a potential crime against humanity, Agence France-Presse recalls.