Boutcha: “We immediately need a UN investigation into all the facts”, says Marine Le Pen

“There must be an immediate UN investigation into all the facts”estimates Marine Le Pen, RN presidential candidate, Tuesday on France Interafter the Boutcha massacre, near the Ukrainian capital. “I had claimed it for Mariupol” and the bombardments in the maternity ward and the theater of this city besieged by the Russians.

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For the crimes attributed to the Russians at Boutcha, “the UN must go on the ground to carry out an investigation, to determine who are responsible for these war crimes”added the far-right candidate. “Obviously, when civilians who are unarmed are murdered in appalling conditions, that is a war crime.”

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Marine Le Pen says she believes “to international law” when the question was put to him as to whether there was any doubt about the origin of the attackers. “We have international structures that are there for that, we must trust them and the UN must investigate all the facts that have been brought to our attention”.

Maintain dialogue with Putin

For her, “People who are convicted of having committed war crimes cannot rejoin the concert of Nations”. Russia still rejects “categorically” all charges related to the discovery of a large number of civilian bodies in Boutcha. We must maintain the dialogue with Vladimir Putin, she assures us: “Emmanuel Macron continues to call Vladimir Putin every day”. And “when I say that Russia is not going to move, in any case it is a country which is in Europe and that consequently it will be necessary to find in the future the means to find a channel of discussion”.