September 27th, 2025
The accusations orchestrated by Mediapart, a far-left french newspaper, against SOS Chrétiens d’Orient are false and misleading.
Five years ago, Mediapart launched a genuine persecution campaign and a blatant harassment against SOS Chrétiens d’Orient, by publishing no fewer than four lengthy and tedious articles on the organisation, founded by some organisations linked to Open Society Foundation. Five years later, the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (sic) decided to hear, in a simple voluntary interview, a handful of the 3,300 volunteers and members of SOS Chrétiens d’Orient and to investigate at the organization’s headquarters as well as at the offices of some of its contractors or former contractors.
With full commitment, all the teams of SOS Chrétiens d’Orient fully cooperated with the operation, providing the requested documents and calmly answering the investigators’ questions.
Nonetheless, SOS Chrétiens d’Orient strongly denounces the disproportionate means deployed on this occasion and the violence of the procedure. An investigation with massive resources, particularly shocking, marked by the disproportion and violence of the measures used without any justification.
Such This over-exaggeration mirrors the outrageous suspicions of a far-left newspaper.
The traceability of SOS Chrétiens d’Orient’s expenses is total, validated by professionals, and based on a simple principle: helping Christians of the East in need.
SOS Chrétiens d’Orient vigorously contests the disgraceful suspicions brought against it. An impartial and objective investigation can only reveal their absurdity. How could a Christian NGO defending Christians and working for peace possibly be complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity! Such charges demonstrate the madness of these suspicions. Completely outrageous!
During the hearings of our collaborators, no questions were asked regarding war crimes, and for good reason: SOS Chrétiens d’Orient has always been extremely transparent about its activities in Syria, assisting civilians in all areas harassed by Islamist forces, in the total indifference of the French political authorities, who were at the time too busy praising the good work of Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda.
We also recall that Mediapart and other media outlets have implied that defending victims of the Syrian conflict, simply because they reside in a particular geographic location, is tantamount to taking a political stance. We hope they will examine their consciences and humanity in the face of such situations.
In Syria, as everywhere else, SOS Chrétiens d’Orient, an NGO whose work on the ground is beyond dispute, has always stood by those who were threatened, attacked, martyred. In the most difficult times of war, it never ceased to bring support, by providing first aid medical supplies, food, and blankets to civilian populations in grave danger. Today, SOS Chrétiens d’Orient continues its work in Syria, far from the leftists’s illusions, and as close as ever to the Syrian people.
For Charles de Meyer, President of SOS Chrétiens d’Orient, “we know that this grotesque case, fabricated by Mediapart aimed to harm us, is an act of intimidation, a forgery serving political propaganda objectives. When the truth comes out, it will show that we have done nothing but charity work for civilian populations in danger. It will also expose the disgraceful objectives of Mediapart. We welcome this, for the victims of war to whom Justice must be given.”
SOS Chrétiens d’Orient therefore welcomes this first stage of the investigation with objectivity and serenity. The persecutions and actions of this far-left newspaper can finally come to an end.
Founded in 2013, SOS Chrétiens d’Orient is permanently present in 3 continents, 9 countries: Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Armenia and Ethiopia. It also carries out occasional missions in Ukraine in 2022 – 2023.
In 12 years, SOS Chrétiens d’Orient has sent 3300 international volunteers to the missions in order to help 400 000 beneficiaries, and to participate in 2000 projects with 50 employees.
There’s still so much to do! In the Middle East, Caucasus and North-East Africa, Christians suffer violence and discrimination.
Instead of indignation, SOS Chrétiens d’Orient prefers to take action thanks to its expertise based on its 6 pillars of action: emergency aid, construction and rehabilitation, economic and social development, cultural and patrimonial development, education and youth, and medical care.
