The City of
Paris has struck a corporate partnership with French industrial
giant, Lafarge, recently accused of secretly sponsoring the Islamic
State (Isis or Daesh) for profit.
Documents
obtained by several journalistic investigations reveal that Lafarge
has paid taxes to the terror group to operate its cement plant in
Syria, and even bought Isis oil for years.
Yet
according to the campaign group, SumOfUs, Lafarge is the corporate
partner and sand provider to the City of Paris for this summer’s
Paris-Plages urban beach event. The project run by Office of the
Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, will create artificial beaches along
the river Seine in the centre and northeast of Paris.
Lafarge also
has close ties to Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Apart from being a regular donor to the Clinton Foundation, Clinton
herself was a director of Lafarge in the early 1990s, and did legal
work for the firm in the 1980s. During her connection to Lafarge, the
firm was implicated in facilitating a CIA-backed covert arms export
network to Saddam Hussein.
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