International Criminal Court signs working agreement with Europol, the EU-wide policing agency

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South Africa appears to threaten to withdraw its support for the court because of its decision to issue arrest warrants for Putin last month

And while this new agreement doesn’t mean the ICC will from now on be able to co-opt EU forces what it does mean is that it will be able to leverage their deep well of expertise and specialist knowledge, from evidence-gathering to criminal intelligence to counter-terrorism.

More broadly, statistics from the same office suggest there have been 76,753 war crimes and crimes of aggression committed by Russia since the start of Putin’s all-out war. It has form on such issues, however, most notoriously when it failed to detain former Sudanese president Omar al Bashir at an African Union summit there in 2015, when all the talk was of the ICC as a “post-colonial proxy” dispensing “Western” justice.

 

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