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French Embassy heirs seek 21.5M euros
Heirs of the owners of the French Embassy building in Baghdad, who are Iraqi Jews, have demanded the French government seek 21.5 million euros in compensation for unpaid rent spanning over fifty years, along with moral damages. The embassy signed a lease agreement with the owners in 1964, but Iraqi authorities confiscated their property after they left the country. The property originally belonged to brothers Ezra and Khudori Loi. The French Foreign Ministry confirmed that the contracts were made with the approval of Iraqi authorities, who engaged in the confiscation of Jewish assets. Meanwhile, the heirs' lawyers stated that France has no right to own the building, and the case is still under review in the administrative court in Paris.
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