NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LaPresse interviews Professor Paola Severino, former Italian minister of Justice (2011-2013). Severino stated Thursday in New York that prosecuting alleged battle crimes and crimes towards humanity dedicated by Russian troops in Ukraine is possible if proof is fastidiously collected, underlining that it is all the time essential to purchase possible witnesses for testimony in such circumstances.
Speaking to Italian information company LaPresse on the margins of her lecture to New York University college students, Severino, who served underneath Mario Monti Government, said that for the reason that prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was requested to collect proofs for these alleged crimes is ‘very important’, seeing on this a sign of the existence of some components to be collected about battle crimes.
According to the outstanding Italian lawyer, it is additionally a sign that there is a will to prosecute these crimes not solely by the Ukrainian individuals but in addition by the worldwide group. Ukraine authorities will probably be ready to conduct these investigations and to begin with felony proceedings, she added.
It is true that Ukraine has not ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, nevertheless it requested to be protected by this type of jurisdiction, she stated, noting that the likelihood for the ICC to prosecute these crimes can’t be dominated out.
Recalling the case of Erich Priebke, the previous nazi officer sentenced to life in Italy within the 1990’s for battle crimes dedicated throughout WWII, which has confirmed as soon as once more that battle crimes and crimes towards humanity don’t expire, Severino underscored that the reminiscence of battle crimes is all the time current even within the minds of younger individuals.
She stated that Priebke’s case occurred 50 years after the tragedy occurred and interrogating witnesses made it appear as if it occurred yesterday, including that the reminiscence stays alive whenever you commit battle crimes. ‘I think it would be the same in the Ukraine war’.
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