DFA: Suspects in killing of Chinese consular officers enjoy diplomatic immunityBy CNN Philippines Staff
Thu, October 22, 2015
Suspects Li Qing Li and Guo Jing at the Cebu City Police, City Intelligence Branch office on Wednesday (October 21).
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesperson Assistant Secretary Charles Jose confirmed on Thursday (October 22) that the Chinese diplomat couple, who shot dead two consular officers and wounded a Chinese consul general in Cebu on Wednesday, is indeed immune from suit.
Jose said that diplomatic immunity is provided for in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. China's embassy also requested the Philippine government not to give special treatment to Chinese diplomats Li Qing Li and wife Guo Jing.
According to Regional Police Director for Central Visayas, Chief Supt. Tom Bañas, Li Qing Li is a consul whose wife Guo Jing also enjoys immunity.
DFA officials, as of posting, are waiting for a security envoy from China to fetch the suspects from Cebu.
The suspects will be prosecuted for murder in China. The city police investigators will also turn over the evidence gathered in the shooting to the Chinese government.
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