S.Korean police want to question Belgian ambassador's wife after store incident prompts anger


  • World
  • Wednesday, 21 Apr 2021

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police said on Wednesday they wanted to question the wife of Belgian Ambassador Peter Lescouhier after receiving a complaint about an alleged assault on a member of staff in a clothes store.

Footage from a security camera showed a woman slap a storekeeper who tried to stop her approaching a colleague. The colleague had suspected she was trying to leave the shop with an item of clothing she had not paid for.

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