Authorities say the Vietnamese embassy was involved

in the abduction of a former official seeking asylum

VietPress USA (Aug. 2nd. 20`17): Trinh Xuan Thanh who is the former PetroVietnam Construction Company (PVC) chief was abducted by Vietnam's secret service and has publicly condemned the kidnapping. This abduction violated the International Law and the Laws of Germany. Therefore the German Foreign Ministry decides to expel Vietnam Diplomats and orders Hanoi to return Trinh Xuan Thanh back to Germany. Please read this news from theTIME on Yahoo News at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/germany-expels-vietnam-ambassador-public-044643792.html

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Germany Expels Vietnam Diplomat After Abduction of Former Hanoi Official

Joseph Hincks,

TimeAugust 2, 2017

Germany has given Vietnam’s intelligence agency station chief 48 hours to leave the country following accusations that the Vietnamese embassy was involved in the kidnapping of a former Hanoi government official at a park in Berlin, the Financial Times reports.

The German foreign office said there was “no serious doubt” that the Vietnamese embassy was involved in the abduction of Trinh Xuan Thanh, who turned himself in to police in Hanoi Monday. On July 23, Berliners had reported seeing armed men detain Thanh in broad daylight in the Tiergarten, a popular inner-city park.

Thanh is wanted on financial mismanagement charges in Vietnam, whose state oil company allegedly incurred losses of $177 million under his stewardship. After leaving PetroVietnam, he forged a political career and climbed as high as the National Assembly in May. But a month later he fell out of favor and was expelled form the ruling Communist party. Hanoi issued an international arrest warrant for Thanh after he fled the country last summer.

At the time of Thanh’s disappearance from the Tiergarten, he was simultaneously fighting extradition charges and attempting to claim asylum in Germany.

German diplomats reportedly discussed Thanh’s case with their Vietnamese counterparts less than a month before his disappearance. The high-level discussions took place at July’s G20 summit in Hamburg, which the non-member Vietnamese delegation had attended as a guest. Martin Schäfer, a spokesman for the German foreign ministry, called the abduction “an extreme breach of trust,” according to the FT. Germany also said that his “unprecedented and shocking” disappearance could exert “a huge negative influence” on bilateral relations.

[FT]

Correction: The original version of this article erroneously stated that Vietnam’s ambassador to Germany would also be expelled, as reported in the Financial Times. Only the intelligence chief has been asked to leave the country.

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HUONG

yesterday

Well, not only Germany got slap in the face. The whole free world got slap as well. Mr. Trinh left Vietnam on airplane with proper documents. They did not stopped him before he departed their homeland. Now they sent police thugs to Germany to abducted people seeking political asylum in Germany's soil. Germany has laws of her own. Don't just go into other country and begin grab people at gun point and brought them home. Free world should stand together and say NO to this kind of lawless behavior of communist Vietnam.
Joe

yesterday

Kick the Vietnam’s ambassador and Communist leaders out of your country.
Vince

yesterday

Abduction and turn-in does not goes together. A little country like Vietnam can freely exercise their power on Germany soil. Boy this is the slap on the face of the German