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Disappointed by international justice, Nika Jeiranashvili decided to return to his roots: wine, which he grows in Georgia. He talks frankly about his experience of the International Criminal Court and draws some very clear conclusions.
In-depth interview withc Frédéric Mégret. One year after the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, what can we say about the different justice initiatives that have been put in place?
As another extraordinary trial opens in France, that of the Nice attack involving 865 civil parties and 8 defendants, we look back at the trial on the November 13, 2015 attacks that closed in July, which turned out to be an unforeseen transitional justice experience. Those ten months of hearing within the classic penal system allowed the emergence of restorative justice dynamics, according to the authors.
For the Kremlin, Georgia was a testing ground for what is being played out today in Ukraine on a larger scale, and for the International Criminal Court (ICC) too. In Ukraine, the war started in 2014 triggered an ICC investigation only eight years later. And in Georgia, its investigation into the 2008 war - conducted with a "similar pattern of conduct", according to the ICC Prosecutor - has only just resulted in a request for arrest warrants. We report from Georgia, Ukraine's sister country, where people are still waiting for justice.
"I have no master," claims storyteller and teacher Massamba Gueye. He is proud to be part of a generation that went to university in Senegal rather than being educated in the West. This is also true for President Macky Sall, whom he advises on issues of culture and heritage. “We must return everything without negotiating,” Gueye insists. He says a Truth Commission is needed between Africa and Europe in order to realize this dream of a continent at peace.