Suspected of theft, she strikes an employee: the wife of the Belgian ambassador to South Korea asks diplomatic immunity

The case causes scandal in South Korea.As the BBC reports, the wife of the Belgian ambassador, Peter Lescouhier, would have struck the employee of a shop, while she was preparing to commit a display flight.On images of Korean video surveillance, we see Xiang Xueqiu attacking an employee who asks her what clothes she is carrying when she was about to leave.According to Korean media, the 63 -year -old woman spent more than an hour in this Seoul store on April 9 before wanting to leave with these clothes without paying.

An employee would then have followed her to make sure that the clothes she had put on were not stolen, although she was already wearing it when she entered the same store.A case which forced to bring out of his silence the Belgian ambassador, regretting "sincerely the incident involving his wife".He also apologized in the name of his wife."Whatever the circumstances his reaction was unacceptable," he added.

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But faced with the outcry that this caused in a country where respect for strict rules is very important, Xiang Xueqiu had invoked diplomatic immunity, which the Belgian Embassy granted him asking for the South Korean police to classify the'affair.According to a Belgian artist who lives in South Korea, and questioned by RTL Info, the news item caused a scandal in the country, several Belgian brands having been targeted by the Koreans thereafter.On the one hand, the diplomatic immunity of Xiang Xueqiu is strongly pointed out, but also the fact that it is of Chinese origin.If her husband apologized in her place, Xiang Xueqiu, who had promised to cooperate with the police, has not yet done so.She was recently hospitalized for a stroke.