{"id":74626,"date":"2025-05-04T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74626\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T19:41:10","slug":"eu-president-must-face-war-crimes-charges-uns-albanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74626\/","title":{"rendered":"EU president must face war crimes charges: UN\u2019s Albanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and other top EU officials should face prosecution for complicity in war crimes committed during &#8220;Israel\u2019s&#8221; war on Gaza, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has advocated, according to Al Mayadeen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">In an exclusive interview with The Intercept, Albanese argued that their political and diplomatic support for &#8220;Israel&#8221; amounts to aiding and abetting crimes under international law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">\u201cThey will have to understand that immunity cannot equate with impunity,\u201d Albanese said. \u201cI\u2019m not someone who says, \u2018History will judge them\u2019 \u2014 they will have to be judged before then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">A complaint was filed at the ICC against EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for complicity in war crimes in Gaza, as critics accuse top EU officials, including foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, of supporting &#8220;Israel&#8217;s&#8221; actions despite international legal obligations to prevent genocide.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and other top EU officials should face prosecution for complicity in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,36891,14250,14249],"class_list":{"0":"post-74626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-francesca-albanese","13":"tag-gaza-war","14":"tag-israeli-regime"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114451269838523159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}