TotalEnergies is the target of a criminal complaint accusing the French oil company of complicity in war crimes for allegedly helping the Russian military in its invasion of Ukraine.
In a complaint filed on Thursday, the Bordeaux-based NGO Darwin Climax Coalitions and Ukraine’s Razom We Stand alleged that a Siberian gasfield part-owned by Total supplied feedstock for jet fuel suspected to have been used by the Russian military against Ukrainian civilians. The Paris prosecutor’s office must now decide whether to open an investigation.
The complaint is an attempt to test the legal responsibility of western companies with investments in Russia regarding Moscow’s war against Kyiv, which has involved suspected war crimes such as attacks on civilians. Total has denied wrongdoing.