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French court fines Lafarge, hands ex-CEO jail term for funding IS in Syria

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French court fines Lafarge, hands ex-CEO jail term for funding IS in Syria

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A French court on Monday fined the cement group Lafarge over one million euros and sentenced its former boss to six years in prison for paying protection money to the Islamic State group and other jihadists…

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Bruno Lafont, Lafarge’s former CEO, was arrested in the courthouse upon sentencing and immediately sent to prison.

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