French NGO sues arms producer Eurolinks, seeking truth on alleged components delivery to Israel
One week before the opening of a United Nations conference on a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palesitinian conflict, an NGO opened a legal front in France, aiming to uncover the truth about a possible case of French automatic weapon components being supplied to Israel amid its military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Le Monde and Radio France have learned that the League for the Defense of Human and Civil Rights (LDH) filed a complaint on Wednesday, June 11, targeting suspected acts of "complicity in war crimes," "complicity in crimes against humanity" and "complicity in the crime of genocide" "committed since October 2023," at the Paris Judicial Court. The complaint targets both the French company Eurolinks and the Israeli firm IMI Systems, as well as "any other co-author or accomplice that the judicial investigation may identify."
This complaint is based, in particular, on March 2024 articles by the investigative outlet Disclose and the local news website Marsactu reporting that France had authorized, at the end of October 2023, the delivery to Israel of a shipment of small metal parts used to link machine gun bullets. These munitions could have been used by the Israeli armed forces against civilians in the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel. These metal links were reportedly sold by Eurolinks to IMI Systems, a subsidiary of the Israeli defense group Elbit – which supplies the country's army and police – before being secretly shipped from the port in Marseille.
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