CityNews – On 1st July, the Chiang Mai office building of Thairath, a popular Thai national newspaper, became the target of someone’s ire when stones were thrown through its windows.
The stone
At 5:00 a.m. on 1st July, people living near the northern headquarters of Thairath heard loud smashing noises, which they then reported to the police. The police arrived to find the glass of the office’s front door cracked and shattered. Police Colonel Weerawut Niamnoi, the deputy commander of Chiang Mai Provincial Police Station, collected the stones as evidence for the investigation. He suspects no less than two assailants.
Police believe that the Thairath offices were targeted because of their controversial news reports on major Thai gangs, such as what has come to be known as samurai gangs. Because of this increased threat, the police have expressed an urgency to speed up their proceedings and investigations concerning gangs.
“I wasn’t at the office, but my son who sleeps in the officer didn’t hear a thing. It was the neighbours that told they heard something like a mirror breaking,” said Chaipan Kattiya, the head of Thairath News Centre, Chiang Mai branch. He wrote on his personal Facebook page, “I am not scared of them. I will keep reporting the news.”
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