“The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack. Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited” (article 51 of the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts).
Aware that war must remain within the framework of the law, the firm campaigns for it never to be allowed to depart from the fundamental principles that guarantee our humanity.
Simplified or caricatured, the law of armed conflict is too often exploited or ignored in public debate.
For this reason, the firm assists the leaders of armed, revolutionary or insurrectional groups who are being prosecuted or accused of violations of international humanitarian law, the laws of war or accusations of crimes against humanity, as well as the victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
Its lawyers advocate for the application and dissemination of the law in conflict zones and theatres of military operations.
Examples of cases handled :
- Defense of a Syrian citizen under investigation and provisionally detained on charges of war crimes, torture and recruitment of child soldiers;
- Defense of victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity;
- Defense of a young Yazidi woman, victim of crimes against humanity and genocide committed in Syria by the Islamic State;
- Defense of French, Algerian, Lebanese and Egyptian citizens who were victims of abuse and arbitrary detention in Qatar before the UN Committee against Torture.