Extra or not extra territorial

(BRUSSELS2) On the occasion of the special “presidential elections” open since 17 p.m., some Belgian journalists repeat at length on the air that broadcasting from the Belgian “embassy” in Paris, they benefit from the status of extra -territorial and are not subject to French criminal law. This appears to be an error in my opinion. There is no extraterritoriality of the embassy, ​​much less for people who do not benefit from diplomatic immunity. Simply, the embassy benefits from an inviolability status which makes it possible not to arrest people inside without authorization from the State concerned. Once outside the embassy, ​​journalists can be picked up legally by the police if they have committed an offense because they are and remain on French territory. It is rather the fact that RTBF broadcasts are broadcast through transmitters located in Belgium which allows them to escape French law which prohibits the publication of polls before the closing time of polling stations. . This is the whole difficulty of extra-territorial application of French law.