Siam Paragon bombers could be foreigners, Thai police spokesman says

[laocowboy2]

"very strange police have found no match to fingerprints"

Does that mean all 67 million Thais have their fingerprints on file?

Not yet, but give the current government time. They are too busy at the moment reading your e-mail and getting hold of the access codes to your bank accounts under the new IT laws.

[Hardy99]

I miss cos***2008 ' s comments here so much.. shure it was Thaksin's dirty followers ..

[Emster23]

No fingerprint match in criminal fingerprint files. Anyone think about comparing with army fingerprint files, or perhaps police officer files? Ooops.... can't imagine blah blah. Didn't cops say were hot on trail and were going to arrest any moment now....

[pmh2009]

Really?????? Foreigners???? Again???? seems "Police" is just a name to them!!!!!

[KamalaRider]

Is speaking fluent Thai a prerequisite for knowing how to plant a bomb??

No, but when to read the Thai instructions on the package to set it off.

[petedk]

It's just an excuse to start searching foreigners on Sukhumvit again, after the new order the other day for them to stop the searches.

[Alwyn]

It's quite bad enough that the police are so dimwitted; But it's really scary that they announce to everybody how dimwitted they really are with these announcements. They give new meaning to the word 'morons'.

[Alwyn]

I'm sorry but what exactly is the connection to "foreigners as suspects?" Lack of fingerprint data? People freely come and go in and out of Thailand on a daily basis. Arrive and assemble bombs. Then select precise locations for placement, avoiding discovery. Execute their detonation and then escape back across said border or simply blend back into the society they live among.

I'm sorry, but my conclusion is pretty much opposite. They were and are locals of Thai Nationality. I would also suspect these bombs were placed to protest the current hiring policiies of Siam Paragon. How's that?

I would say the fact that they have so easily evaded capture, and haven't been found celebrating their escape with a bottle of sangsom and a folder titled "plan to blow up Siam Paragon" sitting in plain site.

This is so obivously going to be a false flag explosion. No casualties. Clear view of the people, no suspects. Maximum headlines, minimum damage.

and giving credibility (in the Junta's eyes) to the continuance of martial law...

[rickirs]

It is not only criminals who have fingerprints on record.

Military service in Thailand is mandatory to all males who have turned 21. Fingerprints would have been part of the registration process. The police should also check Thai military records, assuming they actually have the suspects fingerprints. Of course the police have no authority to review military records and would need to convince Gen. Prayuth to access the records.

It is also possible that universities and the government civil service have fingerprints to be checked. Police need to INVESTIGATE.

For the police just to declare that because they have no match with felons means the suspects are foreigners is a "cop-out."

[Whyamiandwhatamidoinghere]

Give the poor Police Lt. Col. Prawuth Thawornsiri a break. You can tell, by his drooping face and the large airbags under his eyes, that he has lost sleep trying to figure out if the foreigner is a 200 cm American or a 153 cm Burmese who can speak Thai fluently. We already know that foreigners all look alike to some thais.

[ggt]

it is very strange police have found no match to fingerprints recovered from the crime scene!

The bombers were obviously intergalactic aliens hired by the opposition to create havoc in Thailand...no Thai would do such a thing...

[Docno]

Apparently 64 million Thais have their fingerprints on file as it is a requirement for the National ID Card. See here: http://precisebiometrics.com/case/match-on-card-thailand/

[Acharn]

Good grief! The incompetence and stupidity of the police here!

No suspects are identified and still they go ahead and issue arrest warrants? For what?

Dumbasses.

There's probably some requirement in Thai law that they do this. I've learned over the years that when Thais do something I don't understand they (usually) have a reason for it, just not one I had thought of. Still, Bear in mind that the Thai legal system is based on a mixture of the Code Napoleon and Thai customary law going back to the Ayutthaya Kingdom.

I could have sworn that a week or two ago some high ranking officer (Army or Police, I don't know) said they had positively identified the guys, or at least one of them, and knew his name and nickname and current address.

[PlastikbinLina]

and the Taxi driver said they were................Thais

and it was reported recently that the Police expect to make arrests very soon...my mum used to say years ago when something said wasn't believed...and pigs might fly.

[cookee68]

Or maybe their fingerprints are not on any criminal files

[Psych01]

can't find perpetrators, blame it on foreigners.

not every criminal is fingerprinted and there is no way police could get fingerprints from a detonated bag

What if you are a clever criminal and never been caught?

[chooka]

Well you have warrants for the a foreigner arrest the rascal. 195 foreign counties out there let's try and have someone different for a bit of variety, Burmese and Nigerians are getting boring.

[chooka]

and the Taxi driver said they were................Thais

and it was reported recently that the Police expect to make arrests very soon...my mum used to say years ago when something said wasn't believed...and pigs might fly.

Yes they have warrants for the offenders.

[WhamBam]

Smith or Jones should be on the warrants. Plenty of scope there.

[chooka]

i'm leaning towards aliens from outer space did it.

Is there any conclusive evidence to prove, beyond any doubt, that the perpetrators were not from Mars?

They applied for a warrant on the Martian but the judge wanted more evidence so they scribbled out Martian and inserted foreigner.

[berybert]

I would imagine the only thing that would have had any fingerprints on it would have been the bombs.

Does anyone expect to find a fingerprint on something that has been blown to bits ?

Or is that just old dopey in the picture.

Better to just have people think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and removal all doubt.

I asked this nice policeman the time yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tjHlFPTwVk

[Lokie]

Is it me? or does the LT Col have something of the night about him...?

[Wat dee]

Atleast some of the expats aren't abusing their ED-Visas!

[kingalfred]

Amazing Thailand attitude! So because fingerprints dont match criminals they have on file villains "could be foreigners" ! Is there any hope for the country?

[Jonmarleesco]

'... it is very strange police have found no match to fingerprints recovered from the crime scene with any criminal records ...' So all Thais' fingerprints are a matter of record, are they? And criminal, at that?

[catweazle]

Alll rrrrighty then... let's nail it on some Burmese without proper papers!

Funny to see how the useless RTP comes up with their clever conclusions... it's shocking!

[Halion]

Typical trivia, Their identity and their purpose is what is of importance not their nationality.

[bahlaht]

Taxi driver said he can identify if he see again... Z

Zoom in the camera image like when their convicting the man who apparently murdered the bar girl.

[Stargeezr]

As I said before, I always have suspected the bomber is a Foreigner.

It may have been a Brit, or an American, or a Belgium. or a Canadian.

Now I am not saying that the foreigner was born in any of those countries.

What I am saying that the bomber(s) could have been Immigrants who were holding

a passport of one of those countries, but more likely born in the Middle East or

somewhere else. I won't speculate what their religion was either, as they

were likely not any decent religion, but that they were some kind of fanatical or extremist of

what ever religion that they had.

Just saying!

[berybert]

Where to start ? 2 small bombs that hurt no one, 2 small bombs that were not designed to hurt anyone. 2 small bombs that were designed to scare people from the affected area.

So ask the shops in that area if they had sacked anyone recently, if yes maybe bring them in and question them.

Now I know something so simple is maybe a tad to much for a Thai policeman to suss out.

Have that one on me boys, buy me a 35 baht cheapo meal if it turns out to be right. Give the 200,000 baht to the boss man and tell him well done.