As recovery efforts intensify, authorities warn the recorded number of fatalities from the disaster in the special administrative region is likely to grow.
Police official Steve Li admitted that while the chances of prosecution were slim as long as the defendants remained abroad, Hong Kong authorities “won’t stop wanting them.”
Cardinal Zen’s arrest in May sparked a wave of international outrage, in contrast to the Vatican’s relative discretion on the matter. This ‘prudence,’ which could be viewed as excessive, provides the morally murky atmosphere necessary for the Vatican to renew the agreement with communist China.
