A Paris court on Monday found cement maker Lafarge, now owned by Switzerland’s Holcim, guilty of paying the Islamic State group and other jihadists to keep a plant operating in northern Syria during the country’s civil war. The company’s former CEO was sentenced to six years’ prison.
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