Timeline for If you are not Russian or Ukrainian, would it be legal to kill Putin in the laws applicable to citizens of a NATO/EU member state?
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| Oct 20 at 11:06 | comment | added | Arno | @nick012000 The German army is only allowed to engage in hostile actions if either it was determined that Germany is under attack by a foreign country or if it has been explicitly authorized by the Bundestag. Thus, the orders are illegitimate, and the assassin couldn't rely on them as defence. To my knowledge, the BND (the German foreign intelligence agency) has no authority to kill at all. | |
| Oct 20 at 1:56 | comment | added | nick012000 | What if the German was a member of the German intelligence agencies (i.e. the German equivalent of the CIA) or the German special forces and they assassinated Putin on the orders of their superiors? | |
| Aug 18, 2023 at 10:28 | history | edited | Arno | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2023 at 14:52 | comment | added | Arno | @gnasher729 Germany does not extradite Germans to Russia. | |
| Jul 22, 2023 at 14:42 | comment | added | gnasher729 | If you killed an arbitrary person in Russia and then fled to Germany, it would be considered a crime, not prosecuted in Germany because it didn't happen in Germany, but would lead to extradition. I know there are specific laws in Germany about insulting a current or former foreign head of state, when done by Germans in Germany. Would there be specific laws about killing not a random person, but a foreign head of state, which is surely worse than just insulting them? | |
| Jul 22, 2023 at 10:37 | comment | added | Arno | @Trish Most of the overall reasoning would apply in general. Of course, for a German tyrant one can appeal to Article 20 (4) of the Grundgesetz for explicit legal justification. | |
| Jul 22, 2023 at 9:55 | comment | added | Trish | And Tyrannenmord would only apply to getting rid of a german tyrant | |
| Jul 22, 2023 at 8:36 | history | answered | Arno | CC BY-SA 4.0 |