Cement manufacturer Lafarge is in a sticky situation after news surfaced it struck a deal with ISIS in northern Syria to continue a cement plant it operated in Jalabiya.

In 2013 and 2014, as ISIS gained control of towns and roads around the factory, Lafarge made deals with the notorious terrorist group to continue its cement production. The world leader in building materials paid taxes to ISIS group middlemen in order to let employees past checkpoints.

It’s unacceptable for Lafarge to be cutting deals with terrorists group just to expand its operations. Lafarge needs to be held accountable for being complicit in ISIS’s violence that has impacted so many civilians around the world.

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Since 2014, ISIS has filled the void left by al-Qaeda to become the dominant fundamentalist terror group in the Middle East. ISIS has claimed responsibility for dozens of beheadings, suicide bombings, and mass shootings across the world, and in 2014 controlled more than 34,000 square miles in Syria and Iraq -- including the area where Lafarge operated a cement manufacturing plant.

Le Monde reports that Lafarge’s Paris headquarters was aware of the arrangements made with ISIS. Letters show Lafarge even bought licences from ISIS middlemen to allow the company to continue operating in territory controlled by the terrorist group.

This wouldn’t be the first time a French company has been brought to court for terrorist ties. In 2015, a U.S. court ordered the biggest French bank - BNP Paribas - to pay almost $9 billion for processing transactions involving Sudan which al-Qaeda allegedly exploited. We can’t let corporations cut deals with terrorists and get away with it: Lafarge must see justice for its complicity with ISIS.