CarinaCisneros
New Member
I understand that "foreigners" are subject to the laws of the country they live or work in, and also that an Embassy (U.S., for the purposes of my question) is considered sovereign territory. My question is where in the U.S. is a case handled if a crime is committed inside a U.S. Embassy? For example (and this is completely hypothetical), if an American citizen and a Peruvian are involved in a fight in a public place in Peru, it is handled by the Peruvian courts, and the same is true even if they were both Americans. My question pertains to acts committed inside the Embassy -on the so-called "sovereign territory"- and in two instances, one involving two Americans, and another involving one American, and one person from the host country. Can anyone answer where the cases would be handled, should they go to court? Also, does it matter if one of the parties is/was employed by the Embassy at the time of the crime? If the answer depends on the crime, for the sake of argument, assume it if blackmail and extortion, and does not involve physical violence. Any advice appreciated.