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ZaufanaTrzeciaStrona.pl Nov 20

Niesamowita historia, jak możemy zostać “wyłączeni” z systemu. Amerykańskie sankcje blokują życie sieciowe i finansowe sędziego Międzynarodowego Trybunału Karnego, który wydał nakaz aresztowania Netanyahu.

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html

La vie de Nicolas Guillou, juge français de la CPI sous sanctions des Etats-Unis : « Vous êtes interdit bancaire sur une bonne partie de la planète »

Six juges et trois procureurs de la Cour pénale internationale ont été placés sous sanctions par l’administration Trump. Dans un entretien au « Monde », le magistrat raconte le poids de ces mesures sur son travail et son quotidien.

Le Monde

Adam Kaliszewski

@zaufanatrzeciastrona jakieś ministreszczenie zza francuskiego paywalla?

Roy van Grunsven Nov 21

ZaufanaTrzeciaStrona.pl

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1991352574390227129

"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations."

Adam Kaliszewski

@zaufanatrzeciastrona dziękuję!

Kevin Russell Nov 20

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79

Get more engagement, delete the link to fascists.

João Tiago Rebelo (NAFO J-121)Nov 21

@kevinrns I'll even help
@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 and everyone else with that: Nitter link:
https://nitter.net/RnaudBertrand/status/1991352574390227129#m

Adam Kaliszewski

@jt_rebelo thx!
@kevinrns @zaufanatrzeciastrona

Resistencia carpincha Nov 20

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 The US tried to do the same with Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. He gave the best answer after he was notified. He went to a football match and dedicated his middle finger to the people who supported such actions (and are Bolsonaro's supporters):

Jérémy Pagès Nov 21

@resistenciacarpincha @zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 I am glad Moraes was sanctioned. He represents a serious risk for civil liberties in Brazil.

Resistencia carpincha Nov 21

@jpages @zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 No, he does not. And laws are territorial. I don't give a fuck to what US has to say about people who live in another country. Mostly coming from a pedophile like Trump and coming from a country responsible for thousands of disgraces for interfering in other countries' politics.

My liberty and my right to have vaccines were at serious risks during Bolsonaro's government. I did not see the US or Trump complaining about this awful person who tried to carry out a coup d'état against the (DEMOCRATICALLY) chosen president.

@resistenciacarpincha @zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 Trump: Your banned from banking, youre Soo banned. Moraes: I'll pay with pix, please.

Walter Tross Nov 20

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79
Well, I AM enraged. That's the hellish life of nine people, BTW, not just one:
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-strongly-rejects-new-us-sanctions-against-judges-and-deputy-prosecutors

The ICC strongly rejects new US sanctions against Judges and Deputy Prosecutors

The International Criminal Court deplores the announcement of new designations for sanctions by the US administration against ICC Judges Kimberly Prost (Canada), Judge Nicolas Guillou (France), Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan (Fiji) and Deputy Prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang (Senegal). These additional designations follow the earlier designation of four other judges and the ICC Prosecutor.These sanctions are a flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution which operates under the mandate from 125 States Parties from all regions. They constitute also an affront against the Court’s States Parties, the rules-based international order and, above all, millions of innocent victims across the world.As stated before by the ICC President and Judiciary, as well as the Presidency of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, the Court stands firmly behind its personnel and victims of unimaginable atrocities. The ICC will continue fulfilling its mandate, undeterred, in strict accordance with its legal framework as adopted by the States Parties and without regard to any restriction, pressure or threat.The Court calls upon States Parties and all those who share the values of humanity and the rule of law to provide firm and consistent support to the Court and its work carried out in the sole interest of victims of international crimes.For further information, please contact Fadi El Abdallah, Spokesperson and Head of Public Affairs Unit, International Criminal Court, by telephone at: +31 (0)70 515-9152 or +31 (0)6 46448938 or by e-mail at: [email protected] can also follow the Court’s activities on Twitter/X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Flickr

International Criminal Court

Uncle Slacky Nov 20

@waltertross @zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 And Francesca Albanese: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/israel-gaza-war-un-sanctions

US issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, UN official investigating abuses in Gaza

Trump administration targets special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, in latest action against critics of Israel’s war

The Guardian

magnus (he/him)Nov 23

@waltertross @zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 we should be enraged. But we should expand our rage because it's in many ways the hellish life of millions of people. Take for example the countries Iran and Cuba. They are also sanctioned from participating in the international banking system. You can't send money there

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79

🎶 We're all living in Amerika
Amerika
It's wunderbar 🎶

Work in Progress 🌻Nov 20

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 My (Democratic Party) congressman, Josh Riley, aka #GenocideJoshRiley, (NY-19) is in favor of these sanctions.

Regendans Nov 20

The Twitter post is also available via threadreaderapp : https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1991352574390227129.html #france #ICC #sanctions #USA #israel

Thread by @RnaudBertrand on Thread Reader App

@RnaudBertrand: In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/…) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in T...…

John Lusk Nov 21

@zaufanatrzeciastrona

🤯

@kalisz79 @cstross

Arthur van der Harg Nov 21

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 It gets worse when you realise that they can do this to all of Europe if the orange menace gets mad about something. The ICC’s case should be an eye-opener for the EU, not blinkers.

MėMėNTō MōRi📍🇪🇺🇩🇪Nov 22

At the moment, the EU seemst to be a bunch of stupid cowards 🤷🏼‍♀️.

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 any random pile of shit has more honour and dignity than Europe.

Disisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸Nov 21

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 #arrestvonderleyer

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79
If this is not an alarming example what the #clubofoligarchs is able to do, nothing else is.

So europe (institutions, banks, politicians...) not reacting accordingly only shows their disconnection to reality, the (intentionally?) blind eyes to the dependence on global corporations based in US.

In my pov #project2025 hasn't even started using all their "tools". That derailing orange clown is just the beginning, first level so to speak.

stefan (stefbun)Nov 21

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 Likely the exact reason why the EU is so soft on the tech-firms from the US. They are certainly breaching data-protection laws and commit more than enough tax fraud as well. But cracking down on them would certainly bring sanctions against all of Europe... Which would be... bad.

Imagine the damage when this were to be happen for all of Europe.

But all of this strengthens the sentiment we need European alternatives for stuff like credit cards and payment providers for example and get away from their software.

Yet some idiots think digital sovereignety could be achieved with using MS hosted in the EU.

I am really feeling for that poor judge having his life grind to a halt because of his job. uff So much to having independant judiciary at this point...

Simon Brooke Nov 21

@stefan @zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 sanctions against Europe would indeed be bad, but the current situation, in which the rule of law and democracy itself are steamrollered at the whims of #billionaire #kleptocrats is by far worse.

stefan (stefbun)Nov 22

@simon_brooke It will highly dependant on the viewpoint. I am totally with you this is a disgrace for any democracy. The problem is the alternatives may end up worse.

It is really choose the least worst thing right now. We have a total tyrant to the east just waiting for the crumble of the EU. Pretty much the only thing stopping him is that Ukraine did prove more feisty than thought and maybe NATO which the US is part of.

To the west we have an absolute maniac deciding huge things on a whim making him very unpredictable. But still is a vital alley in keeping us somewhat safe. Of course you would want to keep him somewhat happy and not do anything unwise and thought through so you might suffer more consequences.

Then you have the inner-european problems with a recession going on atm (in some EU countries not all?) people being more and more displeased with you and turning to the "easy answer" from the far-right idiots and conservatives doing their best to speedrun facism before the far-right was a chance to power.

Oh and the world is becoming on-fire everyday. Because who would have seen climate change becoming a problem?!

I guess its pick-your-poison time. I am so done with geo-politics atm. It kinda seems the EU missed the point in time to stand up for itself and there is nothing we can do to fix this that will not cost a fortune...

Simon Brooke Nov 22

@stefan Europe's defence against tyrants in the east cannot depend on tyrants in the west. Europe's defence against anything cannot depend on US-made weapons systems with US-made kill switches. They are literally of no value whatever, because whenever Europe needs to use them *except* in pursuance of US imperial interests, it will be denied.

Tyrants will side with tyrants. #Trump isn't a 'vital ally' of `anyone at all except #Putin and #Netanyahu. Have you read his proposed 'Peace Plans'?

tessarakt Nov 21

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 Is there already an amendment to the Blocking Regulation?

Estarriol, Terrorist Dragon Nov 21

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79

and the aMERICANS ARE NPOT PART OF OR PARTY TO THE icc EITHER.

(see replied-to message)

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 world has changed (USA has changed, and so all changes)
Today Usa is imperial not only imperialist, and we are their slave, countries to be exploited like any other country
It's sad not being the privileged partner anymore, now we know how is being a feeble country with riches and dignity to be taken by others

Koos Swart Nov 21

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 as I always say:

feel free to call...

Harold Smith Nov 21

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 normalized to this since decades. But the war is coming to our countries now as well.

Martin Vermeer FCD Nov 21

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 Why doesn't Dutch intelligence provide alternative identities for these people, like in witness protection? Should be straightforward, as undoubtedly they are doing this already for their own agents abroad.

Actually, I suspect they do just that, and articles like this are so many smokescreens...

Adam Kaliszewski

@martinvermeer why should the judge or journalist, or whoever, doing his/her job in a legal and transparent way according to the EU/UN/whatever rules and laws, be forced to use the alternative identity? This is not the way it should work.
@zaufanatrzeciastrona @bert_hubert

Martin Vermeer FCD Nov 21

@kalisz79 @zaufanatrzeciastrona @bert_hubert Yes, but here we are. People in witness protection also didn't ask for the organized crime that put them there. This is no different, even if the crime syndicate involved doubles as a state.

Adam Kaliszewski

@martinvermeer
> being an ally of this crime state (or perhaps 2 or 3 states being international crime actors) / making lot of deals with them (including those causing digital dependency)
> providing alternative identity to own judges, working in line with both local and international law

brilliant.

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @bert_hubert

Martin Vermeer FCD Nov 21

@kalisz79 @zaufanatrzeciastrona @bert_hubert Welcome to life in the big city

Adam Kaliszewski

@martinvermeer still - in my opinion actions on the foreign policy level (especially by the EU as the entity) should look A BIT DIFFERENT and the ideas like the one you wrote about earlier, are... well, I don't mean to offend anyone, so I'll stop here. Have a nice afternoon.
@zaufanatrzeciastrona @bert_hubert

Martin Vermeer FCD Nov 21

@kalisz79 @zaufanatrzeciastrona @bert_hubert Europe should have started working on military and digital sovereignty a decade ago, taking it as the existential emergency that it is. That didn't happen and still isn't happening at the level required. That has consequences. In the meantime, there are emergencies that we *can* handle. This shouldn't be difficult.

Adam Kaliszewski

@martinvermeer Here I agree.
@zaufanatrzeciastrona @bert_hubert

Wouter@nukleos Nov 22

@kalisz79 @martinvermeer @bert_hubert @zaufanatrzeciastrona "...even if the crime syndicate involved doubles as a state." - Ouch!!!

@zaufanatrzeciastrona And yet the EU continues to push for all kinds of legislation that makes us all more dependent on US Big Tech, from age verification to chat control to eIDAS plans.

Inc Hulk 🧪Nov 21

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 With the major USA media corporations being in bed with tRump, and a part of the web of bribery/donations; any individual or organisation that does not do what they are told by the regimen, will be severely punished (by the whole corrupt group of sycophants).

EndicottRoad59 Nov 21

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 This is what political punishment looks like.

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 this should not be, but there is a bit of a joke of "when the colonies become the colonizers".

UkeleleEric Nov 22

@demofox @zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 not quite true, though, the Americans are the descendants (both morally and physically) of the colonialist class. That's why Trump is so much into cleansing US of non-whites, and taking away their rights. Mexicans, native people and non-white immigrants were always second-class or third-class. White privilege always was, and still is, a thing, notwithstanding those who managed to break through.

@UkeleleEric @zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 yeah, for sure. Its just more of the same bs.

Tarcísio Surdi ⁂

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 the exact same thing (Magnitsky) happened to Brazil's Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes #xandão AND HIS FAMILY recently because Trump didn't take kindly that he was conducting the judgment of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro. For context, he was being judged for attempting a coup d'etat to keep his extremist far right regime in power through a dictatorship.

Trump also imposed a 50% tarrif on Brazil's exports (most of which were already reverted due to TACO and rising prices for US customers) even though we have always had a pretty significant trade deficit with his country. This happened because of Trump's alignment with the former president but also the fact that his son went to the US (still on Florida to this day) and lobbied for it - for which he too is now being investigated for conspiring against the nation's interests (while occupying a political position).

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 Well, I want to live in a normal world and I am outraged and I want this to stop.

René Mayrhofer

@zaufanatrzeciastrona
CC @suka_hiroaki

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 As long as the #EU doesn't make it clear that enforcing 3rd party "#sanctions" is #EconomicBlackmail and thus a #crime and it's member states make it #felony, shit like this will continue!

@EUCommission and @europarl_en need to grow a fucking spine and either make it illegal for the #USA to do extrajudicial enforcement inside the #EuropeanUnion or publicly give up and declare itself a #colony of the #USA!

ANYTHING ELSE IS JUST "HOT AIR"!

@kkarhan @zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 @EUCommission @[email protected]

could i send some monaye to pay for my <<CUBA LIBRE>> and NOT get canceled by #PAYPAL ?
(btw i use it not very often)

these #MAGA friends are caring for #QuietPiggy #PedoTrump until the next Leader is coming to save their belief of #racism and #WhiteCollarCrime

@aiquez @zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 @EUCommission @europarl_en wait till they found out I bought some #HavanaClub and paid for it with my debit card!

@kkarhan @zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 @EUCommission @[email protected]

same issue

If retaliation against a judge is not a felony how can we expect the courts to do their job properly?

If this is not illegal already the law needs to be changed. And if it is already illegal it needs to be enforced by prosecuting those who are taking part in that retaliation.

@kasperd @EUCommission @zaufanatrzeciastrona @europarl_en precisely that!

JStark Voice: "Anything else is just cowardice!"

Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱Nov 22

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 There is "law for invasion of The Hague" in US, and has been in place since 2002. We did have quite a few years to sort this out, but instead we preferred to be friends to much more frightening Putin and Chinese "comrades". Somehow pretending that US would stand for us, in case things go sour.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law

U.S.: 'Hague Invasion Act' Becomes Law

Human Rights Watch

Epistatacadam Nov 22

@zaufanatrzeciastrona and we know the USA will happily trade European freedom for slavery to a dictator in the East, for a few grains of rare earth minerals.

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 English translation without paywall: archive.ph/7GkHN

Adam Kaliszewski

@hermlon
Thanks!
@zaufanatrzeciastrona

Belzebubik Nov 22

@zaufanatrzeciastrona @kalisz79 a jest dostępny jakiś dobry artykuł, ale bez paywalla?