On November National Day this year and early in the morning of the following day, a total of 31 national flags were found abandoned, cut or burned on the footpath railings of Wang On House, Wang Tau Hom Village, Lok Fu and Yuk Wah Street off Tsz Wan Shan respectively. The form of coke is damaged.
The police took over the investigation and identified the two men involved. They took action this morning, arresting a man on charges of arson, criminal damage and insulting the national flag, and also pursued another man at large.
The incident occurred at 6:22 in the morning of National Day on November this year. A passer-by was passing by the pedestrian road opposite Wang On Building, Wang Tau Hom Village, Lok Fu, and found that 20 national flags had fallen to the ground. So they called the police and the police arrived at the scene to investigate. Some national flags have burnt marks and were maliciously dumped on the ground.
In the early morning of the second day of the National Day (2nd), 11 national flags hung from the same regiment were also found abandoned on the ground with signs of being cut on the footpath railings off Yuhua Street in Ciyun Mountain.
A total of 28 five-star flags were damaged in the two cases.
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Chief Inspector Lau Ho Tak of the First Team of the Regional Crime Squad of East Kowloon said that through analysis of a large number of closed-circuit television and public information, a 49-year-old man named Lu was arrested in Wong Tai Sin District this morning for arson, criminal damage and insult to the national flag. During detention, the suspect reported that he was unemployed, and no objects suspected of violating the National Security Law were found in his residence. He is suspected to be related to the case of destroying the national flag in Wong Tai Sin District.
The other man, who is about 30 years old, is suspected to be related to the Tsz Wan Shan case. The police will also seek legal advice from the Department of Justice to bring him to justice.
According to the latest amendment to the National Flag and National Emblem (Amendment) Bill 2021, anyone who publicly and deliberately burns, damages, defaces, defiles, tramples on the national flag, the national emblem or its images or otherwise insults the national flag or The National Emblem is a crime. Once convicted, the maximum penalty is a fine of HK$50,000 and imprisonment for 3 years.
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