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Written by: Peng Yiwei
2020-01-01 21:57
Last updated: 2020-01-01 21:57The FDC launched a New Year's Day parade today (1st), starting from the central lawn of Victoria Park and ending at Chater Road pedestrian zone. The FDC announced in the evening that after counting at 6.15 pm and comparing the procession in June, it is believed that the total number of people participating in the parade today exceeded 1.03 million on June 9. FNL criticized the police for dismissing the procession in spite of the crowds, which was "grass killing people."
Police said that as of 5.15 pm, 47,560 people had left Victoria Park and about 13,000 people were still in Victoria Park at that time. Police stressed that after the night, masked thugs arbitrarily damaged in Causeway Bay, Wan Chai and Central. In response to the situation at the scene, the police dispersed them.
FDC: unable to fully calculate the number of people based on 3 points estimated to be over 1.03 million
How did the FDC's parade count? The FDC press release stated that due to the suspension, the number of people cannot be accurately calculated. However, based on the following points, I believe that today's procession will end later than June 9th. 1.03 million people on that day.
1. Calculated number before 6:15;
2. At that time, the situation of the parade in Hong Kong Island at that time: The queen was forced to flood into the space outside Fortress Hill and Victoria Park football stadium from 2 to 5:30. It was full and the crowds in Causeway Bay and Wan Chai were full;
3. Compared with the parade on June 9, the parade started earlier and the eastbound lane of Hennessy Road opened earlier than that day.
The FDC said that the police claimed that the total number of parades today was only about 60,000 people. According to the police's earlier estimates, the lawn can accommodate a total of 32,000 people. The FDC started from 2 to 5:30, and the starting point of the lawn was constantly flooded. In, fill the lawn again and again, without interruption. The FDC believes that the figures released by the police are "absurdly enough to deceive themselves" and have no credibility at all.
Police inquiries from the media said that as of 5.15 pm, 47,560 people had left Victoria Park and about 13,000 were still in Victoria Park at that time.
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Entering the first large-scale march after 2020, there were many police-civilian clashes. In the evening, the FDC issued a press release stating that the New Year's Day march today (1) was forcibly suspended by the Commissioner of Police Deng Bingqiang, and the FDC once again condemned in the strictest terms. The FDC claimed that the parade was informed by the police at 5.30 pm. In response to the situation on the parade route, the procession was forcibly suspended and only half an hour was given to FNL to evacuate more than one million parade and did not assist the citizens at all Leaving it, instead, in Wan Chai and Central districts, using peaceful tactics to treat people who marched peacefully "is a matter of life and death."
The FDC believes that the police team in the middle of the parade fired tear gas bombs on dense crowds, regardless of the crowd's accidents that could be caused by people evading chemical weapons, which was "extremely cold-blooded."
Police issued a press release to severely criticize violent demonstrators, saying that after night, masked thugs were wanton destruction in Causeway Bay, Wan Chai and Central. Thugs blocked the road with debris, dug up bricks on the road, and even set fire to bank entrances and teller machines. In response to the situation at the scene, police have begun to disperse, including a crowd management special purpose vehicle commonly known as a "water cannon car". The press release also said that the police warned the mob to stop the illegal acts immediately, and the police will continue to carry out dispersal and arrest operations.