In comments made to reporters before answering a summons issued by the Taipei District Prosecutors' Office, two People First Party (PFP) lawmakers said yesterday they were innocent of inciting a group of protesters to damage and to break into the Central Election Commission's (CEC) Taipei headquarters on March 26.
Prosecutors had summoned Legislators Chiu Yi (
"I was there with the crowd. But I did not encourage or give the order to the group to break into the CEC office," Chiu said.
"I know who gave that order, but it was not me and I can not say who that was," Chiu said.
However, Chiu said that he would tell prosecutors everything he knows about the incident, including the identity of the person who gave the order to break into the building.
According to prosecutors, Chiu, Feng, Lee and Lin joined the protesters on March 26 and tried to stop CEC workers from posting the election results on a bulletin board. Protesters later damaged the glass door of the CEC building and broke into the building. In the disturbance, police officers and some protesters were injured.
Feng also told reporters that he had not encouraged the crowd to riot.
"I arrived at the CEC with Taipei City Councilwoman Huang Shan-shan (黃珊珊), who is also one of our alliance's lawyers, around 1pm that day. We went upstairs to talk to CEC officials until 5pm. How could it be possible that I encouraged the crowd to riot?" Feng said.
Neither Lee nor Lin made any comments to reporters at the Taipei District Prosecutors' Office yesterday.
On April 13, the Taipei City Police Department arrested two alleged members of the North Union Gang (
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