[New Year's Day Parade. Gallery] The first parade in 2020 ends with slashing, clashes, and arrests
1/1/2020, 4:26:08 PM
The anti-revision storm continued into 2020. The FDC launched a parade on New Year's Day (January 1), reiterating the five major demands of the people, marching from Victoria Park to Pedder Street, Central. It is the prelude to the struggle of the democrats in the new year. The parade flowed back to Fortress Hill and North Point. The number of people announced by the FDC exceeded 6.9 million in the 6.9 parade. The police said that as of 5:15, 47,560 people had set off from Victoria Park. At that time, there were still about 13,000 people in Victoria Park. The gap between the two is more than 15 times. The early stage of the parade was generally peaceful, but around 5 pm, the HSBC branch in Luab Road, Wan Chai was smashed, which became the tipping point of the fierce clashes throughout the day. Subsequently, the police took the initiative to cut off the parade, and set up and arrested illegal demonstrators in multiple areas on Hong Kong Island. Before the Hong Kong people's "common sight" of police-civilian clashes, sabotage, and large-scale arrests in 2019, before showing up again, the police said that more than 400 people were arrested throughout the day, and that they would spend the first day of 2020 in turmoil. This article is a selection of first-hand news photos from Japan, reorganizing the full record of the New Year's Day parade.