France to present initiative to EU to investigate crimes in Ukraine

France will present in Brussels in the coming days an initiative aimed at coordinating the contributions of EU countries to investigate crimes in Ukraine, Report informs, citing RIA Novosti that government spokesperson Gabriel Attal said.

"France, as the chair of the EU Council, will present in Brussels in the coming days an initiative aimed at coordinating the contributions of EU member states, Europol and Eurojust to investigate war crimes in Ukraine," Attal told a government briefing on Wednesday.

On April 11, a technical group of the French Interior Ministry arrived in Ukraine to assist Ukrainian experts in identifying and collecting evidence of war crimes. The group included two forensic experts and about 15 gendarmes.