Lawyers for a French-Lebanese citizen on Tuesday filed a complaint with France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office over alleged Israeli war crimes involving the destruction of his property in southern Lebanon.The complainant, whose name was not disclosed, lives in France. His house and olive trees in southern Lebanon were destroyed by Israel during its war with Hezbollah, according to his lawyers William Bourdon and Nicolas Busin, of the law firm Bourdon & Associes. “This is a French citizen asking the justice system of his own country to establish the full truth and deliver justice for the war crimes committed against him, in line with a broader context in southern Lebanon that appears to amount to ethnic cleansing,” Mr Busin said at a conference on corruption and accountability in Beirut on Tuesday. The conference, organised by the reformist political party Lana, was attended by opposition MP, Halima El Kaakour. Mr Busin said the complainant's family had no connection to Hezbollah, which he argued shows “the complete absence of any military objective” in what happened to his property. He described it as “an act of destruction, damage or even theft”, which he said constituted a war crime.He said the complaint was filed to uncover the truth, identify the perpetrators and prosecute them. According to Mr Busin, more than 6,000 French citizens serve in the Israeli milita...
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