Posted: Apr 15, 2010 5:22 pm
Bathynomus Giganteus wrote:The crimes weren't commited inside the vatican. Wasn't Ratziger in Germany when he was covering up the kiddyfiddling?
And the crime he covered up was in the USA. Both are UN countries. International law applies.
There's a lengthy list of the countries in which relevant cases have taken place here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Cath ... by_country
There are plenty of EU members and ICC signatories in there, and a number of cases after when Benny took office as the Pope too. That's not to say that Robertson will be able to string together a case against the Pope and other Vatican officials out of them, but I'm sure he'll have a good go at it.