best ideas back. The tunnel is a good idea, except when an accident happens, or is planned to happen. Then the police is allowed to interfere with diplomatic status in an emergency, so the road version is not so good unless you are in a more secure diplomatic 'convoy'. . There is nothing to stop the Argentinian, Bolivian Honduran and Venezuelan ambassador visiting their Ecuadorian colleague for a meeting, they could travel in convoy to Switzerland and check their bank accounts, could they not? who knows, could they arrive by helicopter? if there is diplomatic access to the roof. "But Craig, let's just say for a second that an actual rapist, murderer or other guilty criminal decides that an excellent way to avoid capture is to pop into the nearest embassy of a questionable Central American state and seek political asylum. The Geneva Convention and the principle of inviolability is designed to protect diplomats not rapists. It is only right that Mr Assange should return or be returned to Sweden for questioning ... " . Are you suggesting that an embassy might willingly shield any random murderer or rapist who walked off the street trying to hide from the cops? The Vienna Convention doesn't compel them to shield every criminal who turns up looking for a bed. They can exercise their own discretion, of course. . In any case, such a ludicrously unlikely scenario would in no way grant the host government the right to ignore an inviolable international convention