Overview

• Speaking at the Union syndicale des magistrats congress in Paris on October 10, Nicolas Guillou publicly described the immediate impact of the U.S. sanctions imposed on him since August.
• The August 21 measures added him to a roster that now counts nine ICC magistrates after earlier penalties on prosecutor Karim Khan and four judges, with his designation linked to the Netanyahu arrest‑warrant case.
• He reported closures of accounts with platforms such as Airbnb, Amazon and PayPal, blocked parcels, eurozone banks terminating services, and frequent payment failures tied to Visa and Mastercard networks.
• He warned that relatives with U.S. nationality risk criminal prosecution and up to 20 years in prison if they provide services to a sanctioned person.
• Arguing that the U.S. executive can effectively exclude Europeans from banking and digital services, he called for legal tools to limit extraterritorial sanctions and cautioned that other judges, including Brazil’s Alexandre de Moraes, are being targeted.