BI issues deportation order vs. Sueselbeck, bars him from returning to PHL

(Updated 6:22 p.m.) The Bureau of Immigration has issued a deportation order against Marc Sueselbeck, fiancé of slain transgender woman Jeffrey "Jennifer" Laude, allowing the German national to finally leave the Philippines and return to Germany.

 

But the Immigration order stated that Sueselbeck is barred from re-entering the Philippines, after a complaint was filed against him following an incident where he scaled a fence in Camp Aguinaldo and pushed aside a military personnel in an attempt to confront US Marine Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton.

Pemberton is facing a murder complaint in connection with the October 11 killing of Laude inside a motel in Olongapo City.

The BI issued the order after granting in a meeting of the Board of Commissioners on Thursday morning the German's request to be voluntarily deported.

 

The deportation order said that in filing a motion for voluntary deportation, Sueselbeck is “deemed to admit the charges against him, agrees to have his name placed on the black list and be barred from re-entering the country, and undertakes to secure his outbound ticket," the bureau said in a statement.
 

The BI added that Sueselbeck would be able to leave the country as a deportee subject to presentation of outbound ticket and a clearance from the National Bureau of Investigation.

 

Confirming the issuance of the deportation order, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said: "The Armed Forces of the Philippines will no longer be initiating any criminal complaint, there exists no legal impediment for his immediate deportation."

Earlier, the Philippine military said it would no longer puruse its case against Sueselbeck to allow him to finally leave the country, but stressed that it would still want the German national be held accountable for what he has done.

Meanwhile, in a press statement, Sueselbeck and Laude family's lawyer Harry Roque Jr. said his client would want to spend his few remaining hours in the country by visiting Laude's grave.

 

“Our client wants to spend some of the last few hours he is allowed to spend in the Philippines to visit Jennifer’s grave, to say goodbye to her; but for Marc, his return to Germany doe not mean it is the end of his fight for justice for Jennifer,” Roque said.

 

Likewise, Roque said the Laude family is of the view that the military's initial move to file charges against Sueselbeck was an attempt to pressure them to enter into a settlement of the murder case against the US soldier.

 

“The Laude family are of the mind that the charges filed against him (Sueselbeck) by the military were meant to silence them and to pressure them to come to a deal in regard to the case of their slain loved one, Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude; his voluntary departure frees them from a difficult bind,” the statement said.

 

Roque said that while Sueselbeck understands of the gravity of being blacklisted by the BI, he had no choice but to return to Germany so as not to lose his job.

 

“For now, our priority is to get him on a flight to Germany as soon as possible, so that he does not lose his only source of livelihood there,” Roque said. — with Elizabeth Marcelo/RSJ, GMA News