# Who Owns The UN?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 12, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-the-un/160875 "2003-03-12T17:34:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-the-un/160875/32 "2017-12-24T14:17:17Z")

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> [@Whack-a-Mole](#):
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> So as a legal matter the US maintains it can storm any embassy at any time it wants but just chooses to play by the same rules as everyone else?
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> So if I commit a crime inside the French embassy am I prosecuted under French law or US law? If US law is it only because the US agrees to it on a case-by-case basis? So, for instance, if Jared Kushner kick the French ambassador in the nuts inside the French embassy president Trump could stop his prosecution under French law for assault?

You are prosecuted under US law. But law enforcement won’t come in and get you without permission from the French government. You could also be prosecuted under French law arguing the French criminal code allows extraterritorial prosecutions.

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