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On the fringes of a meeting in Berlin, Federal Councilor Karin Keller-Sutter also commented on the Ukraine war – and called the recent events in Butscha a “war crime”. Unlike her colleague Cassis on Monday.
Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter met her German counterpart in Berlin and signed the revised police agreement between Switzerland and Germany. On the fringes of the meeting, Keller-Sutter also commented on the Ukraine war – and took a clear position on the most recent events in Bucha.
It is difficult to assess what could trigger this massacre in Butscha, the Minister of Justice told SRF. “In any case, the images we are seeing of this massacre suggest that it could be a war crime.” War crimes are punishable, one is “at the core of the Geneva Convention”.
Killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure is also a war crime under the Swiss Penal Code.
“Killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure is also a war crime under the Swiss Penal Code.” Now, however, everything has to be clarified, and Switzerland will make its contribution here.
Cassis does not want to speak of “war crimes”.
Striking: Ignazio Cassis had avoided clear words about the incidents in Bucha. On Monday, the Federal President was criticized by Swiss politicians for speaking of “happenings” in Butscha in a tweet from the foreign department of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). in the In an interview with SRF, he said: “Diplomacy is always very careful with the vocabulary that is used, because war crimes is a decision of a court and not a word of politics.”
If the Federal President uses this word without a court having decided it, then it is not entirely correct, Cassis explained.