EU Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders reported on Friday that international investigators have already collected a total of 65,000 tips about possible war crimes in Ukraine. “We are now dealing with the highest number of war crimes ever documented,” Reynders said. This is a “turning point” in international law enforcement.
The EU and Ukraine now want to discuss options to sanction Russia’s war of aggression. International investigators are investigating war crimes in Ukraine, such as the suspected Russian massacre of civilians in Bucha near Kiev.
“Gather Evidence of Crimes of Aggression”
“A first step could be to create a real law enforcement agency to collect evidence of aggression,” Reynders said on Friday in Stockholm on the sidelines of a meeting of EU justice ministers.
It is important “to punish war crimes quickly and efficiently and that there are no gaps in criminal accountability”, Justice Minister Alma Zadic (Greens) demanded before the meeting.
“Now we have to act, collect evidence so that it can then be used for later proceedings,” said Zadic. Luxembourg Justice Minister Sam Tanson made a similar statement.
Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne stressed in Stockholm that the international community should hold “the greats” in Russia accountable and not “ordinary people in the army”. He alluded to President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, among others.
Source: Krone
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