Trinh Xuan Thanh sits on a park bench in Berlin. Photo: DPAGermany said Friday it had expelled a second Vietnamese diplomat over what it calls the brazen kidnapping by Hanoi agents of a fugitive state company official in Berlin. The "totally unacceptable" abduction constitutes a "gross violation of international law", German government spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters. The unprecedented case angered Germany, which summoned the Vietnamese ambassador and decried the "scandalous violation" of its sovereignty. Days after his abduction, a stone-faced Thanh reappeared on Vietnamese state television, which reported he had turned himself in.

Source: The Local September 22, 2017 12:00 UTC