Leaking Hua Hin attack footage "damaged the country" say authorities

HUA HIN:-- Authorities say they want to find those responsible for leaking CCTV footage of the attack on three British tourists in Hua Hin at Songkran.

A province spokesman said that the footage was evidential material and was their property and bringing it into the public domain was both damaging to the country and an infringement of rights.

Hua Hin has said that they were not responsible for leaking the material, reports Daily News.

Police spokesman Kasana Jaemsawang said that the CCTV footage was the property of the Hua Hin municipality and as such should not have been leaked.

The footage appeared online some two weeks after the attacks and quickly received attention from a worldwide audience online and through newspapers and media throughout the world thereafter.

Source: Daily News

-- 2016-04-30

10 years in jail and a 500,000bht fine for leaking the video.

Bail and a 500bht fine for kicking granny and grandpa unconscious.

Amazing Thailand!

I thought the police released the video (albeit 2 weeks later) to catch the culprits???

Obviously not.

'kin hell ..do they not realise that this will also make the international news

Police Probe ‘Leak’ of British Family Beating Video

By Teeranai Charuvastra
Staff Reporter

Scene from CCTV footage released online by a local newspaper in Hua Hin showing the aftermath of an April 13 attack that left a British family incapacitated during the Songkran festival.

HUA HIN — A police commander said today an internal investigation has been launched into whether the footage of a savage assault of three British tourists in Hua Hin during the Thai New Year holiday was leaked from the police force.

Provincial police commander Kasana Jamsawang said Saturday the inquiry is a strictly internal matter, and netizens are still free to share the security camera footage of the April 13 attack, which left the three Britons unconscious on a street crowded with celebrating Songkran.

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1461995339&typecate=06&section=

-- Khaosod English 2016-04-30

Its lovely with the power of the internet press control is impossible. The world now can really see what happens in the land of smiles !

The person who leaked it deserves praise. Those who tried to suppress it need shooting.

The truth always hurts!

Leaking Hua Hin attack footage "damaged the country" say authorities

Yes...it did... Let's only hope the video is seen and remembered far and wide.

'kin hell ..do they not realise that this will also make the international news

It does make you wonder as to how they could be so unaware of the PR damage this is likely to cause .

Far better to allow everyone to think that the video was deliberately released to catch those responsible for causing GBH - than to publicly state that they are angry and that it should have been withheld.

Thanks for admitting that the video damaged the country.

Now be a good boy and do something about it.

PS.:

By "doing something" I mean punish the perpetrators and not the people who released the video.
That's only make you look more stupid in front of the whole world.

Face it.
GAME OVER

Will they ever cease to 'put their foot in their mouth' ?

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The person who leaked it deserves praise. Those who tried to suppress it need shooting.

Probable be jailed like the guy who told the Yanks where Bin Laden was hiding.

The truth always hurts!

Doesn't have to. Only if it's ugly. Like this case.

Good old thai approach to everything ..must keep the LOS ..'Amazing Thailand' image in place ..they even have 'Amazing Thailand' behind the subs benches at Leicester city stadium ..maybe someone can bring along a banner next game "YES -Amazing at kicking old ladies in the head"

The truth always hurts!

More threats.

What about the damage to the British family? Is it not in the worlds benefit to see what's in store for you in the Land Of (false) Smiles?

Silencing the media ain't gonna happen and victims lives are much more important than the Thai baht and just go to show what's the REAL PRIORITY in Thailand.

Just saying ..,,,,,

"bringing it into the public domain was both damaging to the country and an infringement of rights."

Are they serious? This story would probably still be buried if the video didn't come to light. What about the infringement of rights of the Brits. Truly sad state of affairs to worry more about tourism then justice.

Huge loss of face

That emotion dominates all others and reason or logic doesn't get a look in.

The thugs damaged the country

Revealing the truth hurts the country? Interesting lack of logic. Blame the innocent....protect the real dangerous....this response by authorities is what might prevent money from flowing into Thailand.

The thugs damaged the country

Everyone of those spineless punks standing there gawking while 3 people get beaten senseless should burn in hell. A bunch of weaklings who can't exercise any initiative even to protect another human being. Disgusting,.

Hope the English press picks up the video of the girl being kicked unconscious by a bunch of bikers sent by some guy's wife that demonstrate that an attach, like the British one, is very common ..

And now justice must be seen to be carried out on the perpetrators to counter the very bad publicity both at home and overseas. The power of the Internet!

Thai thugs damage the countries image.

Stupid and corrupt police and Gov officials that try to cover up this violence damage the countries image.

A useless and corrupt justice system that does not show any consistent examples of accountability and punishment for criminal actions (unless you take a mushroom from a national park) damages the countries image.

Stop pissing around and worrying about tourism and do something concrete to punish the violent offenders that literally get away with murder in this country!!!

That will do more to improve the sullied image of Thailand that any coverup will ever do.

The truth always hurts!

Doesn't Edward Snowden know!

And then, if a farang should kick a dog, the police and Thai's would be screaming for blood, heavy penalties, jail time, and banning from Thailand. Just too pathetic to comprehend.

One day the police and government will actually realise what the truth is, and what it means.

Suppressing it is damaging to the country.

Well. At least. Maybe. . . .

No. Well. Maybe not.

Who knows.

Keep smiling.

That's it - lets prioritise in typical common sense order !

Let's cover up Ko Tao and those photo's too. More interested in saving face than addressing the real issues !

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That's good that the junta is punished via less victims sorry tourists and as for trying to suppress information this should be a criminal offence but suppose Ok in North Korea China Thailand these sort of places keep the people undercontrol