France's Foreign Ministry defends overflight as compliant with international law
4 Sep 24 10:38 AM · 3d ago · 5 articles · 2 sources · development 4 of 4
France's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pascal Confavreux stated that the Rome Statute does not impose obligations regarding overflights by state planes carrying warrant subjects, arguing the clearance was "in full conformity with international law."
“The Rome Statute does not impose any obligations regarding overflights of its territory by a state plane which has a passenger who is targeted by an arrest warrant.”
Pascal Confavreux
Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister
Emmanuel Macron French PresidentPascal Confavreux French Foreign Ministry spokespersonEmma Fourreau European Parliament memberAmnesty International Human rights organization
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 2 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Al-Monitor, 3d ago · also Middle East Eye, The Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Reuters, Straits Times
3 more headlines
- Canada, France, Italy and Greece allow Netanyahu’s overflight despite ICC warrant Middle East Eye · 3d ago
- France allows Benjamin Netanyahu overflight despite ICC warrant The Jerusalem Post · 3d ago
- France says ICC warrant posed no obstacle to Netanyahu overflight en route to UN Times of Israel · 3d ago
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first by Anadolu Agency, 3d ago · also Le Monde EN
1 more headline
- Netanyahu overflies French airspace again despite ICC arrest warrant lemonde.fr · 2d ago
What people said 4 voices · verbatim
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Yeah, right, I'm sure Trump and Netanyahu has the same position as mine. Bibi: "Why was I not arrested despite the ICC court judgement? How can we expect the world to respect International Law if they don't arrest criminal like me, this is so upsetting!" Trump: "I know it's Macron again, refusing to implement Internation Law when it suits him and…
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>What would you say, is the appropriate way for Iran to defend against a far bigger country that said it wants to destroy you? I would not say nothing, I would look at what international laws and the Geneva convention says about that. But i guess, according to you, we can just forget all rules of warfare and just hit whoever we please, as long as…
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Did you think they were going to intercept your plane to arrest you if you had an Europol warrant and your plane was crossing French airspace?
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Israel is a nuclear armed country. No one will ever arrest him even if he was just waiting on the streets.
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