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The chief prosecutor of the ICC is confident that Putin will be tried after the arrest warrant against him

Holds up the Nazi trials as an example of strong and powerful individuals who sat in court.

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The chief prosecutor of the ICC is confident that Putin will be tried after the arrest warrant against him

Holds up the Nazi trials as an example of strong and powerful individuals who sat in court

MADRID, 18 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Jan, has been optimistic that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be 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, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic or former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, among 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 ICC, Piotr Hofmanski, has described the decision of the body to issue an arrest warrant against the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, as "a very important signal for the world" and for the victims of the alleged Russian plan of forced deportation of 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 an arrest warrant this Friday against Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, accused of having committed the alleged war crime of forcibly deporting Ukrainian minors from areas captured during the war, which began more than a year ago. year, towards 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".