Slain Filipino transgender's fiancé faces deportation

ZAMBOANGA CITY - The German fiancé of murdered transgender Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude may be deported for assaulting a soldier inside the security camp the Armed Forces of the Philippines' (AFP) national headquarters, a military spokesman said Thursday.

Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc, public affairs chief of AFP, said during his visit in the city that AFP chief General Gregorio Pio Catapang will be writing the German embassy on the case of Marc Sueselbeck.

Sueselbeck climbed a perimeter fence inside Camp Aguinaldo as he and Laude's sister, Marilou, attempted to get to the detention facility inside the Mutual DefenseBoard - Security Engagement Board facility, US marine Joseph Scott Pemberton was detained.

The German national was seen assaulting a military guard who was preventing him from entering the military facility.

“Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr. has decided to write the German embassy regarding on the case of Marc Suselbeck who encroached yesterday in the camp and climbed on the security fence with the sister of Jeffrey Laude,” Cabunoc told newsmen here.

Cabunoc also said that the AFP will also ask the Bureau of Immigration about the Sueselbeck's "misbehavior."

He said that the German national violated Presidential Decree 1227 or the law “Punishing Unlawful Entry into Any Military Base in the Philippines.”

“This is one of the issues that we have raised and for assaulting our military police who was on duty that time in the holding facility,” Cabunoc said. “The misbehavior of a foreign national in a foreign country is a basis and ground for deportation."