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Arrest of Putin – France answered whether Putin will be detained on an ICC warrant – UNIAN
Russia did not sign the founding treaty of the ICC.
France has refused to say whether it is ready to arrest Russian leader Vladimir Putin on an International Criminal Court warrant, writes Reuters.
French Foreign Ministry spokesman Christophe Lemoine said that France's legal position on the arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is essentially the same.
Last week, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for alleged war crimes during the Gaza conflict. France signed the ICC's founding treaty but later said it believed Netanyahu was immune from ICC action because Israel had not signed the court's statute. It is worth noting that Russia…
