Sudanese Diplomat Who Groped American Woman Won’t Face ANY Consequences

Wanna know what’s messed up?

Diplomatic immunity.

Seriously, WTF?

According to NY Daily News:

A Sudanese diplomat groped a woman at an East Village bar then tried to run from police — but cops ultimately had to cut him loose because of his diplomatic status, officials said Monday.

 

The 23-year-old woman told cops that Hassan Salih, 36, pawed her breasts and buttocks about 2:30 a.m. Sunday at Bar None on Third Ave. near 13th St., officials said.

 

The disgusted woman grabbed a bar security guard to report what happened and they called the police.

 

The cops arrived and detained Salih as they conducted interviews, and that’s when the diplomat tried to make a run for it.

 

Police officers chased him down, handcuffed him and brought him to the 9th Precinct stationhouse. Salih was able to prove during questioning that he was a diplomat, and because of immunity laws, the cops had to let him go.

 

In January, a Sudanese diplomat was arrested for grinding on a woman in a Manhattan subway. Cops charged Mohammad Abdalla Ali with sexual abuse and forcible touching after he rubbed against the woman on a northbound No. 4 as it left Grand Central on Jan. 9.

 

Similarly, Ali was freed once he proved his role provided diplomatic immunity.

“There’s not much you can do,” a police source told the Daily News at the time. “He has diplomatic immunity.”

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW?!

WHAT IF HE WOULD HAVE RAPED HER? WOULD IT BE ANY DIFFERENT THEN?

Uh…. not really.

Daily Mail explains diplomatic immunity:

Salih is listed on the website of the Sudanese Mission to the UN as a ‘second officer’ – a mid-level position requiring at least five years of experience.

 

Diplomats are given immunity from the host nation’s laws as prescribed by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. According to the treaty, which has been ratified by 191 countries, including the United States, ‘diplomats must not be liable to any form of arrest or detention.’

 

The document also stipulates that family members of diplomats living in the host country are given the same protections as the diplomats themselves.

Host countries are legally permitted to declare diplomats persona non grata, which would give the foreign emissaries a window of time to prepare to leave their post and return home.

 

If a diplomat refuses to leave despite being declared persona non grata, the host country is entitled to strip him or her of diplomatic immunity.

 

Last month, the daughter of a foreign diplomat staffed at the German Embassy stabbed a schoolmate twice in the shoulder with scissors at a preppy international school in Washington, DC.

 

The young girl avoided prosecution because of her father’s diplomatic immunity.

She stabbed the kid with SCISSORS. But it’s cool, ‘cuz her daddy’s “important.”

So , you know, according to this rule, if a foreign diplomat decides to rape and kill your daughter, mother, grandmother, whoever…. all we can really do is ask them to leave.

What. The. Hell.