Exceptional meeting "Ukraine: gathering evidence, trying crimes"

On 24 February, Ukraine was invaded by Russia. A week later, on March 3, the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, after receiving the green light from 39 ICC states parties, opened an investigation to determine the existence of war crimes, indicating that "the work of gathering evidence has begun", while the lawyer Philippe Sands called in a tribune at 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 Longitudinktova, announced that 5600 investigations had been opened for war crimes committed by Russia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and 500 Russian war criminals were identified.

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 the 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 Institut d'histoire du temps présent

The meeting will be in French

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