Exceptional meeting "Ukraine: gathering evidence, judging crimes"

On February 24th, Ukraine was invaded by Russia. A week later, on March 3, the International Criminal Court’s Attorney General, Karim Khan, after receiving the green light from 39 ICC states parties, opened an investigation to determine the existence of war crimes, indicating that "evidence-gathering work has begun", while the lawyer Philippe Sands called, in a tribune to the "Guardian" for the creation of a special court to judge the crime of aggression committed against Ukraine. On 11 April, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Iryna Venise-ktova, announced that 5600 investigations had been carried out for war crimes committed by Russia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, and 500 the number of identified Russian war criminals.

This round table opens the debate on the question of which courts, national and international, can be tried for crimes committed in Ukraine, and on what grounds the accusation will be based

With Clémence Bectarte, coordinator of the FIDH judicial action group and co-president of the French coalition for the ICC,

François Croquette, former ambassador for human rights, director of ecological transition and climate at the City of Paris,

Joël Hubrecht, scientific monitoring and program manager at the Institute of Studies and Research on Law and Justice

Constantin Sigov, professor of philosophy and religious studies at the national university of Kiev and director of the Center of European Humanities Research,

Animation: Christian Delage, professor at the University of Paris 8 and researcher at the Institute of History of the Present Time

The meeting will be in French

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