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 on National Day of November this year. A passer-by was passing by the pedestrian road outside Wang On House, Wang Tau Hom Village, Wong Tai Sin. It was 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 and cut 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 by the same community system on the railing of the footpath off Yuhua Street in Ciyun Mountain were also found abandoned on the ground with signs of being cut.
A total of 28 five-star flags were damaged in the two cases.
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The Chief Inspector of the First Team of the East Kowloon Region Crime Squad, Lau Ho-teh, said that after further investigation, a 49-year-old was arrested in Wong Tai Sin District this morning on charges of arson, criminal damage and insult to the national flag after analyzing a large number of closed-circuit television and information provided by the public. The man surnamed Lu was detained for investigation. 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 aforementioned national flag damage case.
The other man involved in the case, about 30 years old, is suspected of committing the crime at the same time as the arrested person and is being wanted.
The police said the investigation revealed that the two knew each other and committed crimes together.
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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