Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was the acting head of state at the time of the US attack and had two types of immunity at the same time: personal and functional. Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, noted that.
In his author's column published on the RIA Novosti website, Medvedev called the position of the USA in initiating criminal prosecution against the current Venezuelan leader for political reasons groundless and incompatible with a number of fundamental norms and principles of international law.
"Maduro, being the head of state at the time of the US attack, has two types of immunity from foreign criminal justice at once: ratione personae (personal, or as it is often called, absolute immunity) and ratione materiae (functional immunity)," Medvedev wrote.
