To carry out assassinations in Yemen .. A lawsuit in Paris against mercenaries Frenchmen recruited by the UAE

A French law firm has filed a lawsuit in a Paris court today accusing the United Arab Emirates of recruiting French mercenaries to carry out a series of assassinations in Yemen, French magazine L'Expression reported.

The weekly said that the law firm called Ansel made a claim in the French Supreme Court against former soldiers in the French army. The suit was commissioned by the International Coalition for the Defense of Rights and Freedoms, an international non-governmental organization composed of organizations, activists and volunteers. To monitor and promote the rights and freedoms in the world, and prosecute and prosecute violators.

In a report published by the American website Buzzfire in October 2017, Lixpress revealed that Abu Dhabi had contracted an American private security firm called Spire Operation, with the aim of forming a mercenary squad composed of former soldiers entrusted with the task of assassinating political and religious figures close to the Islah Party Yemen.

The role of Dahlan
According to Bazfid's report, the ousted leader of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), Mohammed Dahlan, acted as mediator for the Spire Agreement. Dahlan is a close adviser to Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed and has been living in the UAE since 2011.

By the end of 2015, the US security company formed a mercenary squad composed of three former US special forces soldiers and nine former soldiers of the French Foreign Legion, a special French army detachment.

The mercenaries were ordered to liquidate a list of 38 people in Yemen for $ 1.5 million, plus a bonus for each successful assassination.

According to the French weekly, the case against the nine French mercenaries and against Dahlan stresses "the need to combat the impunity of war criminals that justify the opening of an investigation with the French mercenaries for war crimes, and with Dahlan for his involvement in these crimes."

Previous case
The French magazine reported that the French law firm itself filed a lawsuit in November 2017 with the International Criminal Court against the UAE for hiring mercenaries who committed war crimes in Yemen.

The Australian newspaper reported in November 2018 that the charges of Australian mercenaries included in the case.