SHE PERSECUTED SERBS, NOW PUTIN IS UNDER ATTACK! Carla del Ponte calls for the arrest of the Russian president

- Putin is a war criminal - Del Ponte, who was in charge of prosecutions of war crime tribunals for the UN in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, said in an interview with "Le Temps".

She stated that issuing an arrest warrant would be an important signal that investigative work has been done, the Guardian reports. 

- It is the only instrument that exists that makes it possible to arrest the perpetrator of a war crime and bring them before the ICC - she said.

Del Ponte admitted that the arrest warrant did not necessarily mean that Putin would be detained.

- If he remains in Russia, that would never be the case. But it would be impossible for him to leave his country, and it would be a strong signal that he has many states against him - she added.