“From the moment that France is a signatory, a member of the Rome Statute and recognizes the ICC, I think that it must apply the rules that result from it, there is no reason to deviate from them,” explained Yaël Braun-Pivet on Sud radio.
The International Criminal Court, which Israel has not joined and from which the United States has withdrawn, issued arrest warrants on Thursday against Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of the armed wing of Palestinian Hamas Mohammed Deif for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Notably, the United States has categorically rejected these mandates.
“This is the whole difficulty of international justice, it is still complicated to have justice which is not recognized by all”, estimated the President of the French Assembly, nevertheless defending “the strict application of right “. “By virtue of the separation of powers, I have no injunction to make to the government and the executive power,” she clarified, “but, in any case, we must draw the consequences of this accession to the ICC, obviously.”
Paris “took note” of these arrest warrants on Thursday, recalling “its attachment to the independent work of the Court” but without explicitly saying whether France would arrest them if these people went to its territory.
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