French collective asks International Criminal Court to open an investigation into deportation to Russia

Action, driven by a collective of academics, is based on international press surveys and reports like that published in November by Amnesty International.

by Ariane Chemin

French lawyer Emmanuel Daoud must denounce to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Wednesday morning December 21, the forced deportation of Ukrainian children in Russia: “We cannot wait five or ten years, we cannot not wait until the ICC takes its time. “

“All the evidence is there, under the eyes of the public opinion of all the countries, listed, documented, exactly as for the Russian strikes used as weapons of war on Ukrainian civilians since the invasion of their country By Russsie, on February 24, adds Emmanuel Daoud. The most vulnerable among them, minors, are victims of deportations; recalcitrant adolescents to sing the Russian national anthem led in rehabilitation camps. So many facts which in accordance with Rome status form crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity. “

This action before the ICC was driven by the collective of academics “for Ukraine, for their freedom and ours!”, Created by the academic Sylvie Rollet, specialist in the representation of memory in cinema From central Europe, after the publication, the 1 er August in MO12345lemonde, of a platform entitled: “Deporting Ukrainian children and” Russifify “is to amputate the future of the Ukraine “.

“The Germans did the same between 1940 and 1945 with 60,000 Polish blond children with Aryan features, and many of whom were not found after the war. What is happening is completely comparable “, insists the writer Jonathan Littell, who co-signed this forum with child psychiatrists (Bernard Goise and Pierre Levy-Soussan), the anthropologist Véronique Nahoum-Grape or the political scientist Nicolas Tenzer.

” real predation system “

To prove that thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been forcibly transferred to Russia – to Omsk, east of the country – or in occupied areas, M e Daoud – who defends Frédéric Leclerc -Imhoff’s family, a journalist reporter of BFM images killed in May in Ukraine – is based on international press surveys and reports like that published in November by Amnesty International; The NGO advanced the figure of 10,764 minors in Russia or in occupied areas, separated from their families and not only orphans, as maintained by Moscow.

The action also aims to support the investigations of Ukrainian justice. On June 11, the Vice-Prime Minister Iryna Verechtchouk recalled in MO12345lemonde that a recent Russian law now simplified the modalities of adoption of Ukrainian minors. She called “urgently the international institutions for help” before the extreme difficulty, even the impossibility of repatriating them.

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