PHUKET: The owner of a Phuket bar has been ordered to report to Patong police - with a security guard who allegedly struck an Italian tourist over the head with a golf club in a violent attack this week.
The assault, latest in a string of brutal reprisals meted out by Patong locals, left an Italian tourist with a head wound that later required stitches at a Phuket hospital.
Lieutenant Partya Jansomwong of Kathu Police Station, which oversees the Phuket nightlife centre of Patong on the popular west coast, called yesterday on the owner of the bar and the security guard to turn themselves in immediately.
Two Italian tourists were attacked about 4am on Monday at the intesection of Soi Seadragon - a lane of bars - with Soi Bangla, Patong's after-dark walking street.
The two Italian men had broken an empty bottle on a chair, making a loud noise that brought the golf club attack.
Lieutenant Partya, deputy director of investigations at Kathu station, told a meeting of owners of bars, nightclubs and other venues yesterday that the bar owner and guard involved had to surrender to police or face arrest.
The lieutenant said that people under 18 had to be kept out of venues, and that all bars needed security to make sure they were kept free of drugs and people carrying weapons.
Monday's early morning violence follows a series of incidents this year in Patong in which locals have taken the law into their own hands.
Two Australians were stabbed in February in a case that was later described as attempted murder, a so-called ''dog pack attack'' over a 100 baht tuk-tuk fare left a German expat resident in a coma, and two Dutchmen suffered a beating after damaging another tuk-tuk.
Phuket Fight Puts Two Italians into HospitalThe assault, latest in a string of brutal reprisals meted out by Patong locals, left an Italian tourist with a head wound that later required stitches at a Phuket hospital.
Lieutenant Partya Jansomwong of Kathu Police Station, which oversees the Phuket nightlife centre of Patong on the popular west coast, called yesterday on the owner of the bar and the security guard to turn themselves in immediately.
Two Italian tourists were attacked about 4am on Monday at the intesection of Soi Seadragon - a lane of bars - with Soi Bangla, Patong's after-dark walking street.
The two Italian men had broken an empty bottle on a chair, making a loud noise that brought the golf club attack.
Lieutenant Partya, deputy director of investigations at Kathu station, told a meeting of owners of bars, nightclubs and other venues yesterday that the bar owner and guard involved had to surrender to police or face arrest.
The lieutenant said that people under 18 had to be kept out of venues, and that all bars needed security to make sure they were kept free of drugs and people carrying weapons.
Monday's early morning violence follows a series of incidents this year in Patong in which locals have taken the law into their own hands.
Two Australians were stabbed in February in a case that was later described as attempted murder, a so-called ''dog pack attack'' over a 100 baht tuk-tuk fare left a German expat resident in a coma, and two Dutchmen suffered a beating after damaging another tuk-tuk.
Updating Report Two Italian men are reported to have been treated at a hospital after a fight in Patong's Soi Seadragon. Details of the case are still emerging.
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Why bother arresting them you will only allow them to go free " pending " investigation when we all know the outcome, the tourist will get the blame, and another attack will go unpunished. How many attackers have been charged with anything?
Posted by Wiliam Dale on October 19, 2011 09:17