(FILES) Former Lafarge CEO Bruno Lafont arrives at the Paris courthouse for the verdict in the trial accusing the French cement group of financing terrorism in Syria, in Paris on April 13, 2026. French industrial company Lafarge, the world's largest cement manufacturer, along with all eight other defendants, including its former director Bruno Lafont, have appealed against their convictions for financing terrorism in Syria in 2013 and 2014, a Paris Court said on April 28, 2026. A French court on April 13 fined the cement group Lafarge over $1.3 million and sentenced its former boss to six years in prison for paying protection money to the Islamic State group and other jihadists to maintain its business in war-torn Syria. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP via Getty Images)