Facts: The accused, Adolf Eichmann, was in charge of Jewish Affairs and Evacuation in the Gestapo during World War II. Eichmann was specifically responsible for the implementation of the Final Solution to systematically exterminate approximately six million Jews. This atrocity perpetrated against Jewish citizens is regarded as one of the worst crime ever recorded in human history and is universally condemned. After the war, Eichmann fled to Argentina and lived under a false name. On May 11, 1960, Eichmann was forcibly abducted by the Israeli intelligent services, Mossad, from his hiding place in Argentina and was brought to Jerusalem to stand trial in an Israeli court. Israel and Argentina had each signed an extradition treaty shortly before his capture, but neither had ratified it. Israel had decided to abduct him without waiting for the treaty to enter into force, apparently in fear that Eichmann would escape. On April 11, 1961, Eichmann was indicted at the District Court of Jerusalem with 15 counts of crimes, including, among others, crimes against the Jewish people (genocide), crimes against humanity and war crimes.…show more content… Under public international law, the territorial integrity of a sovereign state is inviolable. If a state, acting through an organ which is attributable to it, purports to exercise powers in the territory of another state without the latter's consent, it commits an international tort. To put it more succinctly, if Adolf Eichmann was forcibly abducted from Argentina by agents of the State of Israel, this, undoubtedly, constituted an international
