Two gang members have admitted smashing the Central Election Committee's (CEC) glass doors on March 26, police announced yesterday.
The two gangsters were yesterday transferred to the Taipei District Prosecutors' Office on charges of vandalism and violation of the Assembly and Parade Law (
The Taipei City Police Department yesterday announced that Ma Hsi-chao (
The North Union Gang is comprised mostly of teenage students whose parents are Mainlanders. The gang is especially active in Taipei's Peitou area.
"Both Ma and Lin told us that they felt the election had been a fraud and that the winner had cheated, so they tried everything they could to stop the CEC from announcing the winner on its bulletin board. They also admitted that they smashed the CEC's glass doors and tried to lead a group of protesters to barge into the building," the police said in a press release.
According to a senior police officer at the police department who wished to remain anonymous, Ma and Lin decided to turn themselves in on Monday night after a long talk with the police.
"They realized that we had evidence proving they were guilty and that they would be arrested anyway. As a result, they decided to cooperate with us," the officer said.
According to the officer, the two suspects also confirmed that local gangsters were involved in all the protests following in the wake of the election.
The police are still trying to determine the identities of a group of rioters wearing black surgical masks who led protesters in an attack on the police in front of the Presidential Office on April 10. According to a tip-off, the masked protesters belong to the Four Seas gang (
The senior police officer said that they did not yet have sufficient evidence to prove this allegation.
Meanwhile, Prosecutor Huang Chun-chia (
Chiu insisted that he was innocent and that politics lay at the heart of the matter.
"They [law enforcement officers] have already decided that I am guilty. Will my argument work? I do not think so," Chiu said.
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