{"id":146069,"date":"2025-06-02T10:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/?p=146069"},"modified":"2025-06-02T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:49:52","slug":"nema-guilty-organization-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/146069-nema-guilty-organization-crimes.html","title":{"rendered":"Nema, guilty of his organization\u2019s crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Majdi Nema, former spokesperson for the Jaysh al-Islam group, has been found guilty by a Paris court. The former Syrian rebel was sentenced to ten years in prison for complicity in war crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFinally!\u201d That\u2019s how some Syrians who had come to hear the Paris Assize Court\u2019s decision, expressed their relief as, moved to tears, they left the final hearing of the first \u201cSyrian\u201d trial held in France in the presence of the accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Syrian rebel, Majdi Nema, alias \u201cIslam Alloush\u201d, was sentenced on 28 May 2025 to ten years imprisonment for complicity in war crimes, for having \u201cknowingly facilitated\u201d the conscription of minors aged 15 to 18. He was found guilty of participating in a \u201cconspiracy\u201d with the rebel group Jaysh al-Islam to prepare for war crimes. He contributed to this \u201cin particular\u201d through his activities as a spokesperson, intelligence officer, and strategic advisor, the presiding judge said when reading the verdict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crimes in which he participated were committed in eastern Ghouta between 2013 and 2016, a region located on the outskirts of Damascus, besieged and bombed by Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime and the scene of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2015\/08\/syria-war-crimes-amplify-suffering-of-eastern-ghoutas-bombed-and-besieged-civilians\/\">multiple abuses<\/a> against the civilian population, attributed to rebel groups that had entrenched themselves there. Jaysh al-Islam exercised political and military control there until 2018, when the regime regained control of the region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-recognition-of-jaysh-al-islam-s-crimes\">Recognition of Jaysh al-Islam\u2019s crimes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/145729-majdi-nema-trial-witnesses-in-absentia.html\">Nema<\/a>\u2019s responsibility for the abuses committed by the group, \u201cthe most important thing is the recognition of Jaysh al-Islam\u2019s crimes,\u201d Ahmed*, one of the three Syrians who brought civil action, told Justice Info. While he is satisfied with the conviction of the former spokesman as an \u201caccomplice\u201d, Ahmed also says he is \u201cpersonally\u201d ready to see him released from prison: \u201cHe has already served five years [in pretrial detention] and now that the regime has fallen, it changes everything for me. Of course, we must not forget the crimes. But Islam Alloush is not the most responsible.\u201d And \u201cunfortunately\u201d, he adds, \u201cthere are members of Jaysh al-Islam who are much more dangerous, still in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organized under the principle of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/113831-crucial-hearing-universal-jurisdiction-france.html\">universal jurisdiction<\/a>, the trial against Nema effectively recognized the war crimes committed by Jaysh al-Islam. In recent weeks, the defence repeatedly expressed regret that the proceedings have often focused on the group\u2019s abuses rather than on proving Nema\u2019s guilt, which it has repeatedly described as \u201csmall fry\u201d to emphasize his alleged \u201climited\u201d responsibility. But the prosecution and the lawyers for the civil parties stood their ground: in their closing arguments and pleadings, they considered that in order to prove Nema\u2019s responsibility for the acts he was accused of \u2013 in particular those relating to participating in a conspiracy to commit war crimes \u2013 it was first necessary to prove that the Jaysh al-Islam group had committed those crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before ruling on Nema\u2019s individual responsibility, the court composed of three professional judges and six lay jurors first had to decide whether or not members of Jaysh al-Islam had formed a conspiracy to commit war crimes. A total of seven categories of crimes were examined, including acts of torture, arbitrary imprisonment, recruitment of minors, kidnapping and abductions, humiliating treatment, and summary executions. The court answered \u201cyes\u201d to all but the crimes committed in the city of Damascus, which were not retained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the civil parties\u2019 side, lawyer Marc Bailly welcomed the verdict at the end of \u201ca long journey\u201d and the fact that all Jaysh al-Islam\u2019s crimes had been recognized. In its closing arguments, the defence had acknowledged the war crimes committed by the rebel group, with the exception of the recruitment of children under the age of 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"ArticleNewsletterCTA\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"ArticleNewsletterCTATitle\">FIND THIS ARTICLE INTERESTING?<\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"ArticleNewsletterCTAText\">\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/en\/newsletter\">Sign up now for our (free) newsletter<\/a> to make sure you don't miss out on other publications of this type. \t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-convicted-of-recruiting-minors\"><strong>Convicted of recruiting minors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond the crime of \u201cconspiracy,\u201d Nema was primarily accused of assisting in the enlistment or conscription of minors into the Jaysh al-Islam group, by helping with their recruitment and training, and participating in the dissemination of propaganda intended to recruit and indoctrinate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To rule on this crime, two separate questions relating to Nema\u2019s responsibility were put to the jury and the court. One concerned his responsibility for the conscription or recruitment of young people under the age of 15, which is considered a crime under international and humanitarian law. The other concerned his responsibility for the forced conscription of minors aged between 15 and 18. Nema was acquitted of the first charge but convicted of the second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Bailly, this important decision will strengthen \u201cthe interpretation of this offense, which had never been used in French law,\u201d in connection with the state of necessity caused by the attacks of the regime in power on the eastern Ghouta region. \u201cIs it so unthinkable to imagine that a minor aged between 15 and 18, who has lost his entire family in the regime\u2019s bombings, might at some point decide that he wants to fight? And that he chooses Jaysh al-Islam because, in fact, they are the ones who give the best pay?,\u201d argued defence lawyer Romain Ruiz in his closing statement, pointing out that, in his opinion, the responsibility of the regime was the \u201cstate of necessity\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-complicity-dropped-by-the-prosecution\">\u201cComplicity\u201d dropped by the prosecution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, \u201cthe Assize Court found that a crime had been committed,\u201d said Bailly, for whom this court decision was not a foregone conclusion. A few days earlier, the prosecution had requested an acquittal on the charge of complicity in war crimes, considering that the evidence at its disposal consisted of \u201cmaterial acts resulting from his actions within the conspiracy\u201d and that it was necessary to establish \u201cdistinct material acts to prove each of the offenses.\u201d However, the two prosecutors regretted that the trial had not demonstrated how Nema had \u201cknowingly aided or assisted\u201d in the recruitment of minors into Jaysh al-Islam. Important witnesses were never heard during the proceedings. This was particularly the case for \u201cwitness Xh3\u201d, who was only interviewed anonymously by investigators during the judicial investigation, without confrontation with the defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although several witnesses testified before the court about the forced recruitment of some of their relatives, these testimonies constitute \u201cindirect evidence\u201d in the eyes of the prosecutor. \u201cIt is not a matter of questioning the testimonies we have heard, but of applying the law,\u201d argued Sophie Havard, anti-terrorism deputy prosecutor, during her closing arguments. And just like the anonymous statements or information submitted to the proceedings, \u201cthey are not sufficient to establish complicity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his closing argument on 26 May Bailly made no secret of his disagreement. In his view, hearing these anonymous witnesses before the court was not the only way to characterize Nema\u2019s complicity. Citing a ruling by the Court of Cassation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.predictice.com\/actualites-juridiques\/chronique-judiciaire-bygmalion-complicite-financement-campagne\">Bygmalion case<\/a>, he explained that while complicity usually involves \u201ca positive act prior to or concurrent with the commission of the crime,\u201d complicity by omission or negligence is also possible \u201cif the person fully endorses the criminal intent and the acts committed.\u201d Similarly, complicity could be characterized by a \u201csubsequent act,\u201d meaning an act that occurs after the crime, allowing, for example, the crime to be concealed, its continuity to be ensured, or the principal perpetrator of the crime to be protected. In this sense, the lawyer argued, it is possible to consider that Nema enabled the continuation of Jaysh al-Islam\u2019s criminal acts \u2013 \u201cacts that he could not have been unaware of\u201d \u2013 by contributing to the group\u2019s propaganda and enabling its financing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of court Ruiz had argued that \u201cit has never been proven that Majdi Nema was informed in advance, internally, that child soldiers were going to be conscripted or enlisted, whether they were older or younger than 15 years old. Nor is there any evidence that he was told that his role as spokesperson would be to cover up this reality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the hearing, a witness for the civil party testified that he had questioned Nema about the presence of minors in a training camp in eastern Ghouta, without getting an answer from Nema. This does not constitute \u201csufficient warning\u201d, according to Ruiz, nor does it prove that Nema ignored reliable information received internally, \u201cas it was the case in the Bygmalion case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The professional magistrates and jurors ruled otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>* Pseudonym<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"articleLink articleLink--editorRecommanded articleLink--textInImage articleLink--textTop\" style=\"\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"articleLinkSurTitle\">Recommended reading<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"articleLinkImageLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/145333-nema-portrait-ex-rebel-certain-innocence.html\"><div class=\"articleLinkImageContainer \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Syria-France_Majdi-Nema-graduated-student-Istanbul_@personal-Facebook-page-540x360.jpg\" class=\"articleLinkImage backgroundImageTag w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Syrian Majdi Nema is on trial in France for complicity in war crimes committed in Syria. 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