The police department in Taichung City said yesterday that it would investigate and summon People First Party (PFP) Legislator Shen Chih-hui (沈智慧) for allegedly having led a group of protesters to break into the Taichung District Prosecutors' Office on March 20 after the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)-PFP alliance lost the presidential election.
Shen and her younger sister Shen Yu-lien (
The crowd was demanding that prosecutors seize and recount the presidential ballots.
Shen Chih-hui said that the allegations against her might be a misunderstanding.
"I was actually calming down the crowd that night," she said.
"The protesters were hectic, angry and emotional. I was telling them that prosecutors had been meeting to discuss their proposals already and they should wait patiently and carry on their protest peacefully," she said.
"I really do not understand why the police thought that I was actually inciting the protesters to riot," she said.
Shen Chih-hui said that she intended to provide full cooperation with the authorities throughout the investigation.
As of press time yesterday, the police said that officers had not decided when to summon the Shen sisters but that it would be soon.
Meanwhile, PFP Legislator Chiu Yi (
Kaohsiung police allege that Chiu encouraged a crowd that was protesting in front of the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors' Office the night of the election to attack police officers with rocks, sticks and bricks and to try to break down the door of the prosecutors' office with a pickup truck.
Chiu denied the allegations.
However, he said he would cooperate with police questioning or hearings.
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