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France, Kurdistan, Syria
Ruling validates DGSI's radical left analysis

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YPG flags during a demonstration in Lyon, France on 12 October 2019.
YPG flags during a demonstration in Lyon, France on 12 October 2019. © Rolland Quadrini/IP3 Press/MaxPPP

For the first time in nearly three decades, a French court has condemned an "ultra-left" group, which is led by a former member of the Kurdish YPG, guilty of "terrorism". The ruling corroborates the DGSI's decision to conduct surveillance of the group it first flagged in 2020.

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