Thread: Saudi vessel loading French arms

Rights groups try to block Saudi vessel loading French arms

LE HAVRE, France (Reuters) - Two French human rights group on Thursday sought to block the loading of weapons onto a Saudi Arabian vessel that is due to dock in northern France later in the day, the groups said, arguing the cargo contravened an international arms treaty.

The move comes weeks after an online investigative site published leaked French military intelligence that showed weapons sold to the kingdom, including tanks and laser-guided missile systems, were being used against civilians in Yemen’s war.

France is one of Saudi Arabia’s main arms’ suppliers, but Paris has faced increasing pressure to review its sales because the four-year-old conflict has shattered Yemen’s economy and created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

Speaking on behalf of rights group ACAT, lawyer Joseph Brehem told Reuters he had filed a legal suit to prevent the weapons being loaded aboard the Bahri-Yanbu, a cargo ship operating for Saudi Arabia’s defense and interior ministries, on the basis of an article of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty.

A second group, ASER, has also filed the same complaint at a different court.

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Comforted (how kind and peaceful):

French weapons not used against civilians in Yemen: minister

PARIS (Reuters) - French weapons are not being used against civilians in Yemen, France's armed forces minister Florence Parly told Radio Classique on Thursday.

Investigative website Disclose reported this week that French arms, including tanks and laser-guided missile systems sold to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, were being used in the Yemeni war against civilians.

"To my knowledge, French weapons are not being used in any offensive in the war in Yemen. I do not have any evidence that would lead me to believe that French arms are behind the origins of civilian victims in Yemen," Parly said.

https://news.yahoo.com/french-weapon...-business.html

Nothing unusual or even newsworthy in that. The French have been doing it for decades. Always nice to see proper stuff being reported for a change though.

Macron needs funding for his new Presidential campaign, move along, nothing to see

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

Macron needs funding for his new Presidential campaign, move along, nothing to see

FFS butters. The French have been flogging arms since before Macrons grandad was born. Where do you think British Aerospace learned from? Idiot.

Brits have been doing so before AIRBUS and the French, you delusional old fool