I don’t know. It’s not a big deal, now that I have read the crap other people are giving you :-)
I think if it was really American soil (like the American Embassy in Paris is) I could go there and ask for asylum and legal stuff like that. I think the special concession is a wonderful gesture though.
Folks, we shouldn’t be mean to our French brothers. They still have some of the world’s most beautiful women and most excellent historical attractions, and who are we going to hang out with when we go over there to visit!?!?
Who knows, maybe you can ? A special concession means there is a special contract between the two nations about how to settle such cases - which means French law only applies there when and as specified by these bilateral agreements.
OK, AF, I don’t think we’re on the same wavelength on this, but just the same, I welcome the election of Sarkozy, and I hope it does represent a new era in Franco-American relations. As much as I have been a very harsh critic of France, it would be wonderful if Sarkozy could awaken the better nature of the French people and bring them back to the traditions of a LaFayette and DeToqueville: men of honor and principle who were true friends.