The war in Ukraine: Vladimir Putin targeted with an international arrest warrant

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published On 03/18/2023 10:33

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The war in Ukraine: Vladimir Putin targeted with an international arrest warrant

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Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is under the yoke of an international arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court in The Hague (Netherlands).

Lightning strike in The Hague (Netherlands). At around 4pm on Friday 17 March, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova Belova, for their alleged responsibility in the deportation of Ukrainian children. Ukraine identified 16,221 children forcibly transferred to Russia. However, tens of thousands are said to have been deported to Crimea and at least 57 regions of the Russian Federation. What consequences could this decision have Vladimir Putin ?

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The risk of arrest in 123 countries

Concretely, if the Russian president goes to one of the 123 member states of the ICC, he risks being arrested. “I don’t think that at the moment (…) it will prevent him from sleeping, but today he is a man who, like an ordinary criminal, a drug dealer, can be arrested and arrested for trial before an international criminal court.”It reminded me of Emmanuel Daoud, a lawyer specializing in international criminal law. Thus, Vladimir Putin joins Muammar Gaddafi, Laurent Gbagbo, and Sudanese Omar Al-Bashir, and the previous presidents in their positions were the subject of such a procedure.