{"id":32179,"date":"2021-05-17T20:29:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/17\/belgium-ambassadors-wife-invokes-immunity-over-seoul-assault-claims"},"modified":"2021-05-17T20:29:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:29:35","slug":"belgium-ambassadors-wife-invokes-immunity-over-seoul-assault-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32179","title":{"rendered":"Belgium ambassador\u2019s wife invokes immunity over Seoul assault claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police will not pursue case after boutique staff alleged they were slapped and hit on head in row over shoplifting<\/p>\n<p>The wife of Belgium\u2019s ambassador to South Korea will exercise her diplomatic immunity to avoid criminal charges on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/07\/south-korean-police-question-belgian-envoys-wife-over-assault-claims\">allegations she hit two boutique staff<\/a> in a row over shoplifting, police have said.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador, Peter Lescouhier, previously said that he \u201csincerely regrets the incident involving his wife\u201d, adding that he \u201cwants to apologise on her behalf\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/17\/belgium-ambassadors-wife-invokes-immunity-over-seoul-assault-claims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police will not pursue case after boutique staff alleged they were slapped and hit on head in row over shopliftingThe wife of Belgium\u2019s ambassador to South Korea will exercise her diplomatic immunity to avoid criminal charges on allegations she hit two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32180,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179\/revisions\/32180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}