Why is diplomatic immunity even a thing? Why was this particular job decided to be above the law?

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Why is diplomatic immunity even a thing? Why was this particular job decided to be above the law?

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In Ottawa Canada there was a Russian diplomat who was driving drunk and plowed down a pedestrian. He claimed diplomatic immunity and went back to Russia.

Didn’t turn out so well for him because he got charged with involuntary manslaughter in Russia and ended up in a Russian prison instead of a Canadian one.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/former-russian-diplomat-guilty-of-involuntary-manslaughter-1.313443

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