For the former Minister of Justice, the Europeans “do not measure” the conflict which has been going on for more than a year in Ukraine, triggered “under absurd pretexts” by Vladimir Putin.
“The war has been there, within Europe for a year and launched under absurd pretexts”. Former Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, who publishes with Bruno Cotte and Alain Pellet Vladimir Poutine, l’accusation published by Fayard, wrote in this book what he presents as the indictment against Vladimir Putin.
“I judged that it was essential that we measure the current charges, the most serious of all, which weigh on Putin but also his accomplices”, he declared on BFMTV, referring to the heads of Russian General Staff and diplomats supporting the master of the Kremlin.
Tactical nuclear weapons ‘in Putin’s arsenal’
Fourteen months ago the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. If the Russian stalemate is confirmed and the counter-offensive in kyiv is being prepared, the conflict continues to claim victims. At least 16 people died in Russian strikes in Uman and Dnipro overnight from Thursday to Friday.
For Robert Badinter, “Europeans do not understand that this is the first time since the Second World War that there is a conflict in Europe”.
“We are currently in a confrontation which can still last and which involves all the risks, including the use of tactical nuclear weapons”, alerted the former minister on our antenna, “it is in the Putin’s arsenal.
“We do not measure at home that it is enough for a drone, a helicopter hit, to fall on an atomic power plant, and there the consequences would be much worse than Chernobyl”, continued Robert Badinter, adding that “the borders n ‘stop the atomic clouds’.
Putin’s “megalomania”
The former Keeper of the Seals asks that “all the efforts of all Nations” are now concentrated to organize a “way out of this absurd conflict and triggered by a man responsible for these crimes and this suffering”.
“Putin is justiciable before an international court, whether in The Hague or elsewhere”, underlined Robert Badinter who fears his “megalomania”.
“As for who will judge him, when he will be judged and if he will be judged, the future will tell us,” he finally concluded.
