THE French counter-terrorism prosecutor announced the start three new war crimes investigations in Ukrainein relation to actions committed against French citizens in the country, which is facing the invasion of Russia’s military forces from 24 February.
In a statement, the prosecutor announces that he is investigating possible war crimes in the cities Mariupol, Gostomel and Chernihiv between February 24 and March 16.
“War crimes may be defined as deliberate attacks on physical integrity, deliberate attacks on civilians who did not take part in hostilities, deliberate deprivation necessary for the survival of civilian property and / or deliberate attacks on non-military property, theft, destruction and destruction.” , explains the French counter-terrorism prosecutor.
The investigations were assigned to Central Office for Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide and War Crimes (OCLCH).
French justice can not open investigations into crimes committed outside French territory, unless one of the victims has French citizenship, if the perpetrator is French or whose permanent residence is on French soil.
The prosecutor’s office has already opened an investigation into his death Pierre Zakrevski, the French-Irish journaliston March 14 on the outskirts of Kiev.
For his part, o Oleksiy Arestovich, Advisor to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskysaid that war crimes committed during the war in Ukraine, such as the massacre in the city of Butsa, should be tried in a special criminal court set up in the model of the International Criminal Court that tried war crimes in the former Yugoslavia.
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