“The International Criminal Court was formed to provide justice to areas where there is no judiciary, no court system, no police, no peace and order.”
What Vera Files found
Nothing in the Rome Statute—the treaty that established the ICC—states that the Netherlands-based tribunal was formed to provide justice to areas with no justice system. The ICC is intended to complement, not to replace, national criminal systems; it prosecutes cases only when States do not or are unwilling or unable to do so genuinely.
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In short
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made this claim around 4 March 2024. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 13 March 2024, 9 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has 62 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 43 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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