Police said they detained a 39-year-old man suspected of tagging buildings, shops, fuse boxes and bridges across Hong Kong. Criminal damage is punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
Police said officers detained a 39-year-old-man surnamed Chan at Wo Che Estate in Sha Tin on Tuesday after “extensive intelligence analysis and thorough investigation.”
He is suspected of tagging structures and public facilities including buildings, shops, fuse boxes and bridges across Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories between January and February.
The clothes he was wearing, and the tools used at the time of the incidents, were found in his Sha Tin home and in a unit at an industrial building in Kwai Chung, police said.
Criminal damage is punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
According to local media outlets, the graffiti involved the tagging of the word “freedom” in Chinese. A fuse box at the intersection of Lai Chi Kok Road and Poplar Street in Sham Shui Po was among the locations where it was found, InMedia reported.
Nearby, there were other fuse boxes each covered by two sheets of A4-size paper. It is not known if they concealed the graffiti in question.
Man arrested for allegedly graffitiing 130 instances of ‘freedom’ across Hong Kong
