#Lafarge paid approximately $6.5 million to #ISIS and other terrorist groups in #Syria between 2013 and 2014. It has been fined about $1.3 million for financing terrorism and $5.3 million for violating international sanctions. Lafarge executives attempted a defense strategy similar to that used by industrialists at #Nuremberg, claiming they were merely maximizing profits.
[…] In the best-known war crimes prosecutions — at Nuremberg, in Jerusalem, in The Hague — most of the defendants were military or paramilitary officers. But at Nuremberg, industrialists who had aided and abetted the Holocaust were also put on trial. These cases largely fizzled, in part because the defendants successfully claimed that they had merely been doing what businesspeople do, which is try to maximize profits, and that they hadn’t known what kind of atrocities they were enabling.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/opinion/lafarge-corporate-terrorism-syria-france.html