The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Janhas been optimistic that the Russian president, Vladimir Putinis tried for the alleged commission of a war crime by forcibly deporting Ukrainian minors from areas captured during the war, which began more than a year ago, to Russian territories.
In an interview with CNN, Jan has brought to the present other historic trials against war criminals such as the Nazis, the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic or the former Liberian leader charles tayloramong others.
“All of them were strong and powerful individuals and yet they found themselves in court,” said the CFI’s chief prosecutor.
Previously, the president of the TPI, Piotr Hofmanskihas cataloged the agency’s decision to issue an arrest warrant against the president of Russia, Vladimir Putinas “a very important signal to the world” and to the victims of the alleged Russian plan to forcefully deport Ukrainian children.
Also speaking to CNN, Hofmanski has acknowledged that these arrest warrants are not “magic wands”, although he has defended their “dissuasive effect” and considers that they give good proof of the work being carried out by the institution within the framework of the war in Ukraine, started by order of Putin more than a year ago.
The CFI has issued this Friday a arrest warrant against Putin and Maria Lvova-Belovaaccused of having committed the alleged war crime of forcibly deport minors Ukrainians from areas captured during the war, which began more than a year ago, to Russian territories.
The court understands “reasonable grounds” to believe that President Putin “has individual criminal responsibility” for these crimes, either for his “direct” commission or for having been unable to “exercise adequate control over the civilian and military subordinates who committed the crimes.” acts”.
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