Overview
- PNAT confirmed three days of searches from September 23 to 25 targeting SOS Chrétiens d’Orient and related sites as part of a probe opened in 2020 into alleged complicity by assistance in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- Specialized OCLCH investigators carried out coordinated raids at the NGO’s offices in Boulogne‑Billancourt, Courbevoie and Paris, seizing computers, documents and account records for forensic analysis.
- PNAT said additional operations took place at associations, companies and private addresses, with franceinfo reporting searches at Ad Litteram in Redon and at locations in Saint‑Jacques‑de‑la‑Lande and in Essonne.
- Association president Charles de Meyer told AFP he was heard in a free‑to‑near‑suspect interview and confirmed investigators seized his computer.
- According to Mediapart and franceinfo, the inquiry examines whether any NGO funds or assistance reached the National Defense Forces, a pro‑Assad network accused by NGOs of looting, attacks on civilians and recruiting children.