During the ruling, the president of the court drew an explicit connection between the 'commercial partnership' that the cement company had entered with terrorist groups, and the attacks that were then carried out by those groups.

The French company, since acquired by the Swiss group Holcim, and former executives were charged with paying several million euros to armed jihadist groups in 2013–2014, through…

The French company paid $6.5m to jihadist groups to keep its plant running in war-torn Syria, a Paris court heard.