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Author: Lu Leqian
2020-09-14 13:44
Last update date: 2020-09-14 13:44
On September 15 last year, there were anti-revision demonstrations in various districts on Hong Kong Island. Some people threw petrol bombs near the Wan Chai MTR station. A 23-year-old student was charged with possession of folding knives, spray paint and radio walkie-talkies.
The case opened in the Eastern District Court today (14th).
The police officer who arrested the defendant confessed that he and his colleagues reported to Wan Chai MTR station that day and were attacked by petrol bombs. When the police officers arrived to help close the exit, he witnessed the defendant pouring liquid into a glass bottle and suspected that the defendant was making petrol bombs. He rushed forward to hunt down, subdued the defendant on Taiyuan Street and found the objects on which he was charged.
The defendant Chen Xiaosong (23 years old, student) was charged with one count of possession of objects with intent to damage property and one count of possession of offensive weapons in a public place.
The charge alleges that he was in possession of a credit card-shaped pocket knife, a utility knife, a can of spray paint, three bunches of plastic straps, a box of matches on Johnston Road near Tai Yuen Street in Wan Chai on September 15, 2019, and A radio communication transceiver.
The defendant Chen Xiaosong (former) was charged with possession of pocket knives and spray paint.
(Photo by Lu Leqian)
There are 200 to 300 people in black at the scene
Police Constable Zhang Xiaofeng confessed that at about 6 pm that day, he and his team were reported to patrol the vicinity of Wan Chai MTR station and found that there were 200 to 300 black-clad demonstrators gathered. Some of them were holding weapons, and some of them threw at Exit A4 of Wan Chai Station. Petrol bomb.
Zhang and his teammates closed the exit A4 and then turned to exit A3 for raids. They found another group of about 30 demonstrators gathered at the junction of Johnston Road and Taiyuan Street near Exit A3. The defendant was carrying a backpack covered with a red rain cover. , And stood beside a demonstrator holding a petrol bomb.
See the defendant pouring liquid into a glass bottle
Zhang Yishu said that because the defendant was pouring some liquid into a glass bottle, he suspected that he was making gasoline bombs, so he went forward and pursued him.
Upon seeing the demonstrators next to him, the defendant threw the glass bottle in his hand to the ground and fled towards Taiyuan Street.
Zhang finally hugged the defendant from behind near Taiyuan Street. The defendant continued to struggle, and both fell to the ground. Zhang used a rubber cord to subdue the defendant. The defendant had physiological saline and a spray paint on his hands.
The case was resumed in the afternoon.
Case Number: ESCC 873/2020
Hearing courts on fugitive offenders with petrol bombs possession of offensive weapons Ordinance