PARIS (Reuters) - French cement group Lafarge paid close to 13 million euros ($15.2 million) to armed groups including Islamic State militants to keep operating in Syria from 2011-2015, human rights lawyers said on Tuesday.
They were speaking at a news conference on the course of French prosecutors' preliminary inquiry into Lafarge's operations launched in June on suspicion of "financing of a terrorist enterprise".
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