Some shocking nonsense from France here. No one gets immunity from an ICC arrest warrant because they're in office - not Netanyahu, not Putin, no one.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/france-says-it-cant-arrest-netanyahu-because-icc-immunity
See Article 27 of the Rome Statute: https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rome-Statute-eng.pdf
More background on this just yesterday from our legal experts:
https://hrw.org/news/2024/11/26/eu-cooperation-international-criminal-court-arrests
The document makes six recommendations to the EU and its member states to advance arrest strategies for outstanding ICC arrest warrants. These arrest strategies include complying with the clear legal obligation of EU member states to arrest individuals sought by the ICC if they are on their territory. But they also include using diplomatic, political and economic clout—in other words, political will—to bring about arrests in other countries.
@andrewstroehlein
Sure - once Netayahu is before the court. But to get him there, he can't be immune to arrest & surrender by a State Party under art 98(1). The Appeals Chamber already said immunities don't prevent arrest in the Al-Bashir case, but that was in the context of a Security Council referral, which Palestine is not. The Court could be called on to decide, & while some of its prior reasoning supports your position, not all of it does.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/court-record/icc-02/05-01/09-397-corr
#Trump has managed to get immunity for everything, his entire life. #AboveTheLaw
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