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Siam Chon News reported that CCTV from three separate cameras appeared to back up a Chinese man's assertion that he thought police who arrived to serve a search warrant were actually criminals coming to abduct him.

 

The footage was obtained by the Chinese media and is now being commented upon widely among netizens in China. 

 

They called the arrival of 11 plain clothes police officers as "here come the baddies".

 

The first scene in the footage - believed to be behind the luxury house at the Phoenix Country Club  - shows the police arrive in three vehicles.

 

Most of them immediately start running towards the property.

 

 

The next frame is of a Chinese man on a phone walking casually by a pool maybe with a mobile phone. On seeing the advancing men he runs back into the house chased by them.

 

He runs to a bedroom and closes the door. 

 

When the police arrive - one crouched low by windows - a hail of bullets rings out, shot through the door. 

 

The Thai police have said they legitimately wanted to serve a search warrant on Zhang Yang in connection to online gambling.

 

Zhang has said that he thought he was being abducted and would be held to ransom. He denies knowing they were police.

 

Two officers were severely injured by gunshot wounds in the incident in the Huay Yai area of Pattaya last Wednesday afternoon.

 

One officer was in a coma.

 

Commenting on the footage now that it has been widely shared in China, the suspect's lawyer Anirut Khongsap said to the public:

 

"You decide the truth".

 

It was clear he feels his client has a clear defence for his actions. 

 

The suspect remains in custody as investigations continue. 

 

About seven or eight other people were in the house at the time but they do not feature on the video, notes Thaivisa. 

 

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Fully agree with the Chinese man.

Not 1 of them in uniform, running towards the house, that is professional policing?

No way just looked like a bunch of thugs.

Well done R.T.P. The millions of people here who depend on tourism for their livelihood will thank you, for your brainless stupidity.

Edited May 26, 20215 yr by colinneil

Great advertisement for the TAT, well done. Thai tourism is grateful...dead. ????

If this happened in China to a Thai and Thai media complained they would be told it's an internal Chinese matter and nobody else's business.  

reminds me of the movie scarface 

 

Motive behind no uniforms ? A plan that went very wrong ?

 

The army and police will be busy making up some law to retrospectively blame him for using his right to self defense. Good for him he's Chinese though. 

I thought foreigners were ban from owning firearms !

48 minutes ago, tracker1 said:

I thought foreigners were ban from owning firearms !

Perhaps he borrowed it from a shot friend?

57 minutes ago, tracker1 said:

I thought foreigners were ban from owning firearms !

Not if you have a work permit.

1 hour ago, colinneil said:

Fully agree with the Chinese man.

Not 1 of them in uniform, running towards the house, that is professional policing?

No way just looked like a bunch of thugs.

Well done R.T.P. The millions of people here who depend on tourism for their livelihood will thank you, for your brainless stupidity.

Yep  come back to Thailand where you to can be shot at by RTP thugs .  

The masters are not happy, payback on the horizon. ☹️

Agree, looks like an abduction or home invasion.

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

Fully agree with the Chinese man.

Not 1 of them in uniform, running towards the house, that is professional policing?

No way just looked like a bunch of thugs.

Well done R.T.P. The millions of people here who depend on tourism for their livelihood will thank you, for your brainless stupidity.

A few years back while living on a Moo Ban estate in Pattaya, there was a commotion outside in the street.

I opened the door to see what all the fuss was about ( as you would ), to be greeted with a pistol pointed at my head by a guy in plain cloths only.

F##k this was my reaction, " Police " he said, " Drug Bust ' on the House next door, ' Stay inside ".

This guy could have been anybody, and if it were not for one of those I.D things on a lanyard round his neck, I would not have known. 

No Flak Vest with POLICE on it or anything.

I suppose they think they are the SAS or something similar to get their egos up, but yes Brainless Stupidity.

 

 

WOW !! 
This story will have a not so happy ending for a few !

Clearly a plan that went wrong. 

I would have done exactly the same thing ( if I would have a gun and after S****ng my pants full ) 

 

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The Thai police have said they legitimately wanted to serve a search warrant on Zhang Yang in connection to online gambling.

 

These clowns need to go back to police school and learn how you serve a search warrant.

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Most of them immediately start running towards the property.

 

I would have started shooting as well if I couldn't identify them as police.

man what a damning video.  I hope this hits the communist Chinese "media" for all their "investors" to see.  

 

 

Looks  like they just stepped out the  moo bahn, Police make me laugh, did  they all wear regulation flip flops to?

err... civilian cars, civilian clothing, not a single police badge visible... what on earth did they think?

There must be more to the story before this sequence...????

1 hour ago, rbkk said:

Not if you have a work permit.

I must correct myself. The laws have changed! https://thethaiger.com/news/new-legislation-foreigners-cant-guns#:~:text=The amendment also specifies that,fined up to 60%2C000 Baht.

3 hours ago, covidiot said:

reminds me of the movie scarface 

 

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe Scarface if he had had cctv could  show his innocence with some crafty editing even if he was guilty

13 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe Scarface if he had had cctv could  show his innocence with some crafty editing even if he was guilty

Did they edit out all the police uniforms, and add in 20 people in civilian clothing?

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Did they edit out all the police uniforms, and add in 20 people in civilian clothing?

my point was that we do not know if ALL camera cctv is shown, you can put together a very different story by only showing some cctv footage

Under the current law as of 2020 there is no foreigner who can even apply for a gun no matter who they are. ... Yes under Thai law it states you have to be a Thai National, so if you are able to go thru that lengthy process of becoming a Thai National, yes you can legally purchase a gun.

Edited May 26, 20215 yr by blackcab
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Approaching the property in civilian clothes - that doesn't sound right!

 

Approaching the property from the rear to deliver a warrant - that doesn't sound right!

 

Chinese man thought they were there to kidnap him - that sounds about right. ????

Can't blame the guy for thinking it could be an abduction. The RTP have been caught committing ransom abductions in the past and assisting gangs.

Just now, RichardColeman said:

my point was that we do not know if ALL camera cctv is shown, you can put together a very different story by only showing some cctv footage

Thai law, if people come on your land without permission, you can shoot them.

If they were wearing a police or army uniform, maybe I'd hesitate.

But those guys running from the vans .......... shoot first, ask questions later.

 

What's the fine for a foreigner using his Thai maid/wife/gf's gun?

Edited May 26, 20215 yr by BritManToo

21 minutes ago, kuzie57 said:

so if you are able to go thru that lengthy process of becoming a Thai National,

How many skin grafts would that take? ????

In the past there have often been reports of fake police officers or pomposity. Also, no one knows whether the police officers are on duty in plain clothes or not. Also some plainclothes policemen like to wear their guns in the waistband under their T-shirts, like the gangsters in the Hollywod films. As in this case, it can quickly lead to misunderstandings.