Remember, it's perfectly legal to be arrested in the country whose laws you've broken. In fact, it's also legal for a third-party country to arrest you, as in

Remember, it's perfectly legal to be arrested in the country whose laws you've broken. In fact, it's also legal for a third-party country to arrest you, as in the case of Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean dictator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet%27s_arrest_and_trial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet%27s_arrest_and... The US was nothing to do with this affair. The crimes were committed in Chile, the judge who indicted him was Spanish, and Pinochet was arrested in London. (He was eventually released to Chile, but the reason was declining health, not lack of jurisdiction.) So it would seem in this case that Spanish law was trying to govern the whole of Europe?