A team of the French gendarmerie arrived at Lviv of western Ukraine to assist their Ukrainian counterparts in war crimes investigations committed on the outskirts of Kievwhich includes the massacre of Boutsaannounced the ambassador of France to Ukraine.
This is the first foreign unit to provide such assistancewrote in Twitter Etienne de Ponsen.
Fier d’accueillir à #Lviv the detection of technical and scientific gendarmes assisted by their cameras in the investigation of crimes committed against others #Kiev. The first to touch an aide. Ils seront à pied d’Å“vre des demain. Solidarity 🇫🇷🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/3pX9LkPzeq
– Etienne de Poncins (@EdePoncins) April 11, 2022
“I am proud to welcome to Lviv the technical and scientific body that has arrived to assist colleagues in the war crimes committed around Kyiv”wrote in French and Ukrainian, clarifying that the French experts will take over their work from tomorrow.
“Solidarity”, wrote the French ambassador next to the French and Ukrainian flags.
“Technical team of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in charge of providing expertise in the identification and collection of data for the Ukrainian authorities, arrived in Ukraine today”the Ministries of Interior, Justice and Foreign Affairs announced in a joint statement from Paris.
“In agreement with the Ukrainian authorities, it will also be able to contribute to the investigation of the International Criminal Court,” the statement said.
The French gendarmes in the forensic examination of crime scenes, the identification of victims and accompanied by medical examiners.
Yesterday, the Ukrainian judiciary announced that 1,222 people were killed on the outskirts of Kiev from the beginning of the Russian invasion, without specifying whether the number concerns only civilians.
On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France was gathering evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
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