The World - News from Sept. 13, 1988
Britain expelled Cuba’s ambassador and the embassy’s third secretary after a shooting incident involving the junior diplomat. Foreign Office Minister Timothy Eggar told Cuban Ambassador Oscar Fernandez-Mell that he and Carlos Manuel Medina Perez must leave Britain by midnight tonight. Details of the incident were sketchy, but witnesses said Medina Perez fired up to five shots at several people in a car that had pulled up outside his house in central London. Police arrested Medina Perez, but he was released after claiming diplomatic immunity. The Foreign Office said he told police he opened fire because he feared his life was threatened.
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