ロシア戦争犯罪の証拠、「数百点」収集　独検察

【ベルリンＡＦＰ＝時事】ドイツ連邦検察のペーター・フランク検事総長は５日、ウクライナにおけるロシア軍の戦争犯罪の証拠「数百点」を収集したことを明らかにした上で、ロシア指導者を裁くため、国際的な取り組みを呼び掛けた。（写真は資料写真）
　フランク氏は、独紙ウェルト日曜版に掲載されたインタビューで「現時点では（ウクライナの首都キーウ近郊の）ブチャでの大量殺害および民間インフラ攻撃に焦点を合わせている」と語った。
　フランク氏はまた、証拠の大半はウクライナ避難民からの聞き取り調査に基づくものと説明。今後は「ドイツ国内もしくは他国との共同方式での裁判、あるいは国際裁判に備える」と述べた。
　ただしドイツ国内で戦争犯罪者を訴追するには、容疑者が国内にいることが前提となると認めた。
　アナレーナ・ベーアボック外相も先月、ロシアのウクライナ侵攻をめぐり特別法廷の設置を呼び掛けた。
　国際刑事裁判所（ＩＣＣ）は昨年、ロシアの戦争犯罪について独自の調査に着手したが、ロシア、ウクライナ両国はＩＣＣに加盟していないため、原則的にはロシアの容疑者を訴追できない。
　ブチャでは昨年３月、ロシア軍の撤退後に数百人の遺体が見つかった。これを受けて国際社会では非難と戦争犯罪追及の声が高まったが、ロシアは繰り返し犯罪行為を否定している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/02/07-14:07）

Germany's prosecutor general said Sunday that his office had collected hundreds of pieces of evidence showing war crimes by Russian forces in Ukraine, calling for an international effort to bring leaders to justice.
At the moment we are focusing on mass killings in Bucha and attacks on Ukraine's civil infrastructure, prosecutor Peter Frank told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
He said most of the evidence came from interviews with Ukrainian refugees, and the goal was now to prepare for a possible later court case -- whether in Germany or with our foreign partners or an international court.
Frank's office has previously used the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows the prosecution of certain grave crimes regardless of where they took place, to try Syrians over atrocities committed during the country's civil war.
Under the same principle, a group of people from Myanmar last month filed a criminal complaint in Germany, accusing their country's military of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Frank said his office had begun its Ukraine inquiry in March 2022.
We are not targeting certain specific people in the investigation but rather are collecting information and evidence, he said.
He acknowledged, however, that prosecution of suspected war criminals in Germany was possible only if they were in the country.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock last month called for a tribunal to get around the fact that the International Criminal Court (ICC), despite launching it own investigation last year, cannot prosecute Russia for any possible war crimes since neither Russia nor Ukraine are members of the Hague-based court.
Who do we want to bring to justice? The leaders of state -- those who took the decision to start the war -- and the people who at the highest level of the military implement this decision, Frank said.
That would in my opinion call for a reckoning at the international level -- whether via the International Criminal Court or before a special tribunal is in the end up to the international community.
In the Kyiv suburb of Bucha alone, hundreds of bodies were discovered after the Russian army was driven out last March.
The killings sparked international condemnation and accusations of war crimes, which Moscow has repeatedly denied.