Lawyers, rights groups and politicians accuse Paris of misrepresenting the Rome Statute after its volte-face on obligation to arrest and surrender Israel's PM to the ICC

The French Foreign Ministry suggested that Netanyahu may have immunity from arrest because Israel isn’t a signatory to the court’s founding treaty.

Provisions for immunity from prosecution at the International Criminal Court apply to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the French foreign ministry said Wednesday."Such immunities apply to Prime Minister Netanyahu and other ministers in question,