International Criminal Court counts on arrest of Putin on way to Budapest summit

https://www.leidschdagblad.nl/buitenland/strafhof-rekent-op-arrestatie-poetin-op-weg-naar-boedapest-top/98288077.html

by ByGollie

38 comments

  1. > Criminal court counts on arrest Putin on way to Budapest summit
    > 17-10-25, 14:51
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    > update: 17-10-25, 15:19
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    > The Hague
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    > Russian President Vladimir Putin is to be arrested on his way to the planned summit with his American counterpart Donald Trump in Budapest, according to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The countries that have signed for the ICC are simply obliged to execute arrest warrants, the court said. That goes for both Hungary and the surrounding countries, which Putin would have to pass through.
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    > Hungary wants to receive Putin and Trump within a week or two. The country has announced it will withdraw from the ICC but is yet to abide by ICC decisions until mid-next year. However, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also welcomed his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, whose arrest has also ordered the court.
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    > The ICC does not mention Putin in so many words, but points out, when asked, that Member States are ‘legally obliged’ to cooperate. They also owe this to the other 124 participating countries, notes the court located in The Hague. Whether a Member State agrees with an ICC decision or not. According to the court, this is what only the court itself is about.
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    > Putin has been making fewer foreign travel since the coronavirus pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine, and appears to be staying home even more often since the arrest warrant. So he stayed away from BRICS summits in South Africa and Brazil, both of which recognize the ICC. Last summer, he traveled to Alaska for a meeting with Trump. The U.S. has always kept out of the ICC.

  3. Seriously, there’s no way that will happen….unfortunately

  4. I can’t really apprehend how this war criminal, responsible for death and suffering of so many innocent gets to fly into the EU with full immunity.

  5. Surrounding countries have the potential to do a funnies

  8. Force that plane down during fly over. Belarus has some experience with that.

  9. Just like how Mongolia had an obligation to arrest him, good luck!

  10. They won’t do jack squat. ICC exists only to pursue small colony country leaders if they don’t obey their colonizers.
    Period 

  11. If they all simultaneously post a Facebook banner photo too, old Pute will be rotting in a jail in no time. /s

  16. I’ve got questions. Let’s say he somehow gets arrested. What is the plan after that? What if Russia wants vengeance?

  18. Yeah and I’m counting on Dua Lipa getting in touch later on tonight

  19. The same way as Netanyahu was arrested when he visited Budapest a few months ago?

  20. International Criminal Court forgets that it’s a stupid, useless and weightless institution for a second

  21. I know they must bring it up otherwise the organization wouldn’t be doing its job but people who actually believe it’s possible are insane. Arresting him would be a declaration of war.

  27. Keep counting. Think they know how to count to infinity ♾️?

  28. A surprising amount of people are willing to end humanity as it is just for the sake of ukraine

  29. I mean, that would be amazing but there’s no way it’ll happen.

  30. Yeah, don’t think that rules of international justice apply unless you are a small country.
    We saw African and ex- Yugoslav war criminals get trialed, but no way in hell that we will ever see Putin, Netanyahu or any of the US politicians face justice….

  31. Prepare the shocked Pikachu faces when they roll the red carpet

  33. I genuinely don’t see why they’d say this? “international law” is a contradiction in terms – there’s no international sovereign with a monopoly on force, so how can it exist?

    I think of how the us supreme court has historically been terrified of getting too far ahead of public opinion because they realize they can’t enforce laws with guns. Their nightmare is that that a popular president goes “lol nice rule you just said now go enforce it dweebs.” the danger is that theyd become just 9 old people in black robes  that no one cares about. They can’t train people to ignore them. 

    The ICC is on even shakier ground. So being like “we expect Hungary to arrest the head of state of the world’s biggest nuclear arsenal” is like going out of their way to prove that they’re divorced from reality

    This either sounds like ancient Greek or vaguely evil to legalisitic Europeans. An institution said it so it’s sacred. Oh OK. Sadly in 2025 the power to kill is still what makes the world go round

  34. There seams to be a lack of other sources. I probed ChatGPT a while and it was not buying this.

    Most important; ICJ do not advertise these kinds of things.

    It’s overall a stupid notion to think Russia would let this happen.

  35. So what routes might he take? He can fly through Hungary and Serbia, but on the way there. Romania? Bulgaria? Or Turkey and then either Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece+North Macedonia, or Italy+Austria?

  37. I guess we all agree that this will never happen.

    Would be a shame though if Putin’s plane were to be shut down accidentally…

  38. Catching Putin’s double Gona be a big game changer.

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