German Consul Arrested in Brazil Over Husband's Death

[Scott]

A German diplomat in Rio de Janeiro, Uwe Herbert Hahn, was arrested on Saturday night in connection with the death of his Belgian husband, police said.

 

Hahn said that his husband, Walter Biot, had died on Friday when he fell from their apartment in the Ipanema neighborhood after suffering a sudden illness.

 

But police arrested him on suspicion of murder after their forensics found bloodstains in the apartment and the autopsy of Biot's body showed multiple wounds.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-08-07/german-consul-arrested-in-brazil-over-husbands-death

[Bluespunk]

Diplomatic immunity been waved by the German government or does it not cover murder? 

 

I mean it shouldn’t but I though it did. 

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9 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Diplomatic immunity been waved by the German government or does it not cover murder? 

 

I mean it shouldn’t but I though it did. 

I wondered about that, too. Diplomatic immunity is absolute.

[terryq]

It says he was a 'consul'. Under the Vienna convention consular immunity is not as extensive as full diplomatic immunity and might apply in this case.

 

 

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18 minutes ago, terryq said:

It says he was a 'consul'. Under the Vienna convention consular immunity is not as extensive as full diplomatic immunity and might apply in this case.

 

 

Thanks for the correction. Here's a link leading to further info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consular_immunity