Second Administrative Challenge launched by ACAT against the Prime Minister of France (Urgent Request)

This second claim by ACAT sought to cancel customs permits issued to another cargo ship – the ‘Bahri Tabuk’ that authorised the transit and transportation of French arms from the French port of Fos-sur-Mer to Saudi Arabia. In an identical claim to their other case, it was submitted that the cancellation of the customs permits was necessary to protect the right to life and right to freedom from inhuman treatment of the Yemeni civilian population.

Following the same reasoning as the previous case, the Administrative Court of Paris dismissed the case given the lack of a ‘marked and imminent’ danger to the lives of the civilian population as a direct result of the authorisation of the contested customs permit.