Bt500,000 rewards for details on grenade attack suspects: Bangkok Police

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Bt500,000 rewards for details on grenade attack suspects
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Police are offering a Bt500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man seen on surveillance-camera footage throwing a grenade at the anti-government rally site at Victory Monument on Sunday afternoon, Bangkok police chief Pol Lt-General Camronwit Toopgrajank said yesterday.

An arrest warrant will soon be obtained for the man, who Camronwit said was not a naval special-operations officer, as was earlier rumoured after a mugshot of a different, wrongfully implicated person was distributed widely on social media.

The attack, which wounded 28 people including protesters, was the second grenade attack on an anti-government rally.

Arrest warrants for two suspects sought in connection with a grenade attack last Friday on a protesters' march were also anticipated, Camronwit said, adding that Bt500,000 rewards have also been offered for information on these two suspected attackers, seen acting suspiciously in video footage.

Pol Maj-General Adul Narongsak, said the three suspects in the two attacks were likely connected to one another, as the same type of Russian-made RGD-5 grenade was used in both attacks.

Adul said more investigation was needed to confirm the identity of a suspect in the Victory Monument grenade attack. Photos of a former close aide to slain red-shirt leader Maj-General Khattiya "Seh Daeng" Sawasdiphol have been circulated in the social media comparing him to security-camera images of the man who threw grenade at the protest site.

The two suspects in last Friday's attack were seen wearing white caps and driving a getaway pickup truck, said Adul. He added that Phya Thai police were further examining the footage and had interviewed a number of witnesses.

CAPO director and deputy prime minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said verification was needed to determine who the person in the footage was. He said that PDRC leaders would be invited over to discuss joint security measures with the police, as advised by Army commander General Prayuth Chan-ocha.

The suspect, if or when apprehended, would be charged with causing a harmful explosion, attempted murder (multiple counts), possessing and using an explosive without permission, four charges relating to the carrying of such a weapon and using it in a public area without good reason. People can report sightings of the man to 1559

or via www.facebook.com/team.policespokesmen.

Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said guards working for protest organisers would, with the help of city police, remove black plastic bags covering 16 surveillance cameras at Victory Monument rally site. Footage from privately owned cameras was being gathered as further evidence.

Department of Special Investigation chief Tarit Pengdit said investigations into frequent attacks on security guards at rally sites were being handled by police. The DSI would take them over only if its Special Cases Board agreed to accept them.

-- The Nation 2014-01-21

[andygunther]

I hope they find the guilty one !

[tomyummer]

This is Thailand. The guy's friend or family will definitely turn him in for the money.

[Siripon]

This is Thailand. The guy's friend or family will definitely turn him in for the money.

No one has turned Suthep in in spite of the red shirts offering a large sum of money.

In fact the opposite has happened, people continue to give Suthep money.

[JRSoul]

Give the case to the DSI? With their proven record of dropping cases against red shirt terrorists, that should be expected.

[harada]

I'm sure that its my ex wife in disguise.

[Yunla]

Hopefully, once caught they will receive a fair and thorough trial, with genuine and incontrovertible evidence against them.

Followed by a life-meaning-life prison sentence.

Edited January 21, 2014 by Yunla

[15Peter20]

Good to see the Police inspiring confidence among potential witnesses by sharing any leads they get with Facebook Inc.

Edited January 21, 2014 by 15Peter20

[Rv Hawee]

Unfortunately the guy will ne ver be caugh and is probably already in a safe place...in Thailand or ina neibouring country.

On the pro PRDC forum FB pages; he is identified as a former aid of a guned-down red officier ... my spouse is certain of it but i didn't read it by myself.

[ManopY]

Everybody already know who it is!

Only the Police still do not know!!!???

[Nickymaster]

Edited January 21, 2014 by Nickymaster

[skills32]

If they can't pay the farmers, what are the the chances of collecting the reward?

[poisonus]

Everybody already know who it is!

Only the Police still do not know!!!???

I would be very careful if I were you...... seriously, I would be VERY careful.

[Tchooptip]

I'm sure that its my ex wife in disguise.

Your ex wife a ladyboy?

[darren84310]

This is Thailand. The guy's friend or family will definitely turn him in for the money.

For 500,000 he'll probably turn himself in

[ManopY]

I bet that IF they found him, he will not be alive!!!

[speedtripler]

This is Thailand. The guy's friend or family will definitely turn him in for the money.

For 500,000 he'll probably turn himself in

and give the police 100,000 to drop the charges stating it wasnt really him after counting the money checking the facts

[Chao Lao Beach]

I read previously that he through a ping pong ball bomb, what is that?

[Nickymaster]

I read previously that he through a ping pong ball bomb, what is that?

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/698129-russian-rdg-5-grenades-used-in-both-bangkok-blasts/

[harada]

I'm sure that its my ex wife in disguise.

Your ex wife a ladyboy?

After operation 100% lady

[Jack Morram]

He's probably in Poipet by now having dinks with Arisman.

[kerrysum]

TOTALLY AMAZING,

A reward like this and they can't even pay the Farmers for their Rice pledge scheme???????

[Scamper]

The administration has in a sense been yanked rudely into the twenty-first century. All these photos and eye witnesses and information leads are really ruining their parade, as they are beginning to intrude on their own narrative. In an age where nothing is unseen, where iphones record everything in sight, this only makes it that much more difficult for Suapong's talking points. The scripts now have to be revised daily. What can they do, now that the only available alternative yawning before them is the truth ? Has it really come to that ?

[Tchooptip]

I'm sure that its my ex wife in disguise.

Your ex wife a ladyboy?

After operation 100% lady

... but for doing that I dare say she has balls

[Thait Spot]

I bet that IF they found him, he will not be alive!!!

Or very shortly afterwards

[TVGerry]

Another 10m baht reward from Thaksin!

Does that mean he pays himself the 10m if he turns himself in?

[AleG]

Another 10m baht reward from Thaksin!

Does that mean he pays himself the 10m if he turns himself in?

One of the men in the comparative photos circulating has emerged (the one associated with the late Seh Daeng), he said he's not the man, has a credible alibi BUT...

He claims to know the actual bomber, and that he is hiding in Klong Toei. He should hurry to the nearest police station and spill the beans for the reward.

In any case it strengthens the theory of a Red Shirt group being behind the attacks.

[Ulic]

Push up that reward, 2 million baht minimum.