The question "Should Putin be judged?" has occupied the minds of his opponents since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Mathilde Philip-Gay gives a fiery and affirmative answer: yes we must, yes we can, including in her absence if necessary. This professor of public law at Lyon-III leads this fight as well as a militant as a legal technician, carried by her family ancestors, such as her grandfather, the minister André Philip, socialist passed by Gaullism, defender of the status of conscientious objector -, or the wife of the latter, Mireille Philip, who was declared Righteous Among the Nations. The argument here focuses on the importance of a legal offensive in the name of the international order, in the form of a tribunal that tries a warmonger without cause admissible.
Despite these Western breaches of international law, jurists have kept the faith.
This would require the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal to try Vladimir Putin and his entourage for the "crime of aggression" against a third country. Is it useful? Yes, she answers, because "the crime of aggression...
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