A detachment of eighteen French experts from the criminal research institute arrived in kyiv to identify victims and participate in bringing to light war crimes.
It is the very first force of European criminal expertise to intervene in assistance in the theater of war in Ukraine. After receiving a go Last Thursday, eighteen technicians from the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) left their headquarters in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise) on Saturday morning. Leaving in three trucks, they drove for three days before arriving Monday in the kyiv region where, according to a report provided last Sunday by the local authorities, some 1,222 corpses were found after the departure of Russian troops.
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The convoy includes a semi-trailer loaded with equipment as well as a large white van housing a mobile DNA laboratory, a unique prototype in the world capable of identifying up to 21 genetic profiles every thirty minutes. Inside the cabin filled with instruments and analysis products, two teams of three soldiers from the gendarmerie will take turns in order to work…
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