Seems like a no-brainer. Arrest him, curry infinite good favor with the west. Or let him go, curry untrustworthy good favor with an actively failing dick tater.
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Mmmmm, infinite curry....
We need a naan-proliferation treaty ASAP.
Seems like journalists failed to do their due dilligence on this one. From an international law standpoint South Africa has absolutely no obligation to arrest Putin as he would be protected under diplomatic immunity as stipulated on the Vienna Convention of 1969 (and custom). In fact Article 98 of the ICC treaty directly prevents this from happening.
What South Africa doesn't want is the shit show of having Putin on an official visit. The guy will be bad PR and a liability to them at this point.
Yes, it's not so much a legally mandatory thing as it is the optics of hosting a wanted man and a war criminal.
That meddling interpol…..
Just let him go there!
They should just send the gray man to get him.
"Yes Nikolai ... we all drew straws. One of us has to fly to SA, boss' orders, and turns out it's you. Shut up and deal with it."