German Justice Minister Mark Buschmann said this, Die Zeit reports.
“I expect the International Criminal Court will quickly contact Interpol as well as the member states and ask them to comply with the request. Germany will then be obliged to arrest President Putin when he enters German territory and hand him over to the ICC,” Buschmann said.
He emphasized that Germany would comply with the ICC's request if “Putin's foot steps on German territory” because the country is subject to the court's jurisdiction.
Later, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed lawyers to give a legal assessment of the statements of the German Minister of Justice regarding the arrest of Russian citizens, including Vladimir Putin, in Germany.
On March 17, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Children's Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova.
Representatives of various states and international organizations reacted to the ICC's decision. They were later joined by representatives of the United Kingdom and Canada, who unequivocally supported the court's position.
US President Joe Biden said that the ICC's arrest warrant for Putin is justified because the Russian president has committed war crimes.