The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was seized, Friday, July 11, of a “communication”, that is to say a complaint, of the association for Ukraine, for their freedom and ours !. She asks the court to issue arrest mandates as quickly as possible, Vladimir Putin, and eight other senior Russian executives, in order to put an end to the looting of Ukrainian museums. Flights considered by international conventions as war crimes.
“The aggression of Ukraine by Russia has given rise to the largest spoliation of cultural heritage in Europe in time of international armed conflict since the Second World War, reports the association in the complaint. As early as 2014, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has doubled a cultural war aimed at eradicating the Ukrainian identity. »» “This spoliation is systematic, generalized and organized”et “Planned at the highest level of the Russian state”.
The Russian federal law of March 18, 2023 made it possible to incorporate the “Collections of 77 Ukrainian museums in the catalog of museums in Russia” In the regions controlled by Moscow, Donetsk, Louhansk, Zaporijia, Kherson, and Crimea, annexed in 2014. According to the Ministry of Ukrainian culture, there remained in Crimea, in July 2024, less than 1.2 million museum pieces, against 12 million before the invasion.
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