According to Marco Buschmann, the German Justice Minister, Russian President, Vladimir Putin will be arrested if he comes to Germany.
The German minister vowed to execute an arrest warrant for Putin should he step foot on German soil.
According to Buschmann, the International Criminal Court will quickly contact Interpol and the contracting states and demand that the warrant be executed in the event that Putin arrives, Yahoo News reports.
“Then Germany will be obliged to arrest President Putin if he enters German territory and hand him over to the International Criminal Court,” the minister said.
Buschmann said unlike local law enforcement agencies, the ICC has the authority to prosecute heads of state.
The arrest warrant for Putin, according to earlier remarks from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, demonstrates that no one is above the law.
The International Criminal Court’s Pre-Trial Chamber II issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, and Maria Olekseevna Lvova-Belova, the country’s presidential commissioner for children’s issues, on March 17.
