crime against humanity, anti-terror prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.
killed by an explosion in the east of the war-torn country in what a US court later ruled was an "unconscionable" attack that targeted journalists on the orders of the Syrian government.
French judiciary had been treating the alleged attack as a potential war crime, but on 17 December, widened the investigation to a possible crime against humanity, a charge for which French courts claim universal jurisdiction regardless of locations or nationalities involved.
AFP that new evidence pointed to "the execution of a concerted plan against a group of civilians, including journalists, activists and defenders of human rights, as part of a wide-ranging or systematic attack".
A Private War, was killed in the Syrian army's shelling of the Baba Amr Media Center in Homs on 22 February 2012.
'A great step forwards'
ordered Syria to pay $302.5 million over her death, said in its verdict that Syrian military and intelligence had tracked the broadcasts of Colvin and other journalists covering the siege of Homs to the media centre.
AFP, they extended the probe to cover suspected Syrian government "persecution" of civilians, including Colvin and Ochlik, as well as British photographer Paul Conroy and French reporter Edith Bouvier, who was wounded in the attack and Syrian translator Wael Omar, as well as "other inhumane acts" committed against Bouvier.
AFP.
'Deliberately targeted'
claimed that Colvin was "responsible" for her own death.
third city, was part of a civil war triggered by the repression of a 2011 revolt against Assad's government.
Sunday Times when she died, was known for her fearless reporting and signature black eye patch, which she wore after losing sight in one eye in an explosion during Sri Lanka's civil war.
ousted in December after rebels led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Islamist group seized control of Damascus, ending more than 50 years of his family's iron-fisted rule.
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