San Francisco: Man who crashed car into Chinese consulate shot dead
www.bbc.co.uk
Police in San Francisco said the unidentified man was killed after officers arrived at the scene.
    • yetAnotherUser@feddit.deEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      No it didn’t.

      Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions sometimes do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are generally not sovereign territory of the represented state. The sending state can give embassies sovereign status but this only happens with a minority of countries.[13] Rather, the premises of an embassy remain under the jurisdiction of the host state while being afforded special privileges (such as immunity from most local laws) by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

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        • yetAnotherUser@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Well yes, but I’m not aware of any outliers and I don’t think this is one of them.

          Though my statement stands true still, for the commenter I replied to assumed it was always the case.