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> sounds plausible Additionally, as far as I understand, the U.S. military personnel has a special legal status almost anywhere outside of the U.S.

• wolfi1 7y ago
  In Germany at the time for sure as legally Germany was an occupied territory but if the policemen would have thought it was illegal they would have handed them over to the MPs
  • acqq 7y ago
    Italy in 1998 wasn’t officially occupied AFAIK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1998) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_...
    • wolfi1 7y ago
      there may be some NATO statute or a treaty between US and Italy EDIT: it's a NATO statute
      • acqq 7y ago
        > it's a NATO statute And Germany is also in the NATO, so the same rules are still there too.