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“Recently, reviews have come to gentle of heinous crimes dedicated in Afungi by Mozambican troopers working for the French firm TotalEnergies,” the lawmakers stated of their written query.
The French vitality large had contracted a Mozambican safety unit to defend the plant regardless of warnings that some troopers had allegedly carried out human rights abuses.
TotalEnergies informed POLITICO it had “no data of the alleged occasions described” nor “any data indicating that such occasions befell.”
The lawmakers are urgent the Commission to name on the Mozambican authorities to carry accountable and punish these accountable for the atrocities. They additionally search readability on the EU’s stance relating to the involvement of TotalEnergies, an organization headquartered within the bloc, and known as on the Commission to implement EU rules mandating corporations mitigate their detrimental impacts on human rights.
In response to a query by POLITICO, the Commission stated it might deal with the matter by means of Parliament.
