The International Criminal Court sits in a non-descript suburb in what is a largely non-descript capital. From his spacious office in the Hague, the Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo is the man tasked with investigating tyrants and regimes.
Neat and fastidious, he is unfailing polite even if he does carry the air of a man who would be rather doing something else when we sit for an interview.
We will meet again later today.
The Argentinean will announce "the opening of an investigation in Libya", the latest step in the growing international pressure against Colonel Gaddafi and his cohorts in Tripoli.
Mr Ocampo, at a news conference, will name names, people to be targetted in a full scale inquiry into possible crimes against humanity. It is almost impossible to think the Colonel will not be top of the list.
As well as presenting "preliminary information as to the entities and persons who could be prosecuted", the prosec