PRIME MINISTER Srettha Thavisin today (Mar. 3) urged the public not to verbally escalate a Swiss man having kicked a female Thai doctor as she sat watching the moon on the steps leading from his villa to Phuket’s Cape Yamu beach on the night Feb. 29, Amarin TV said.
Dr. Thandao Chandam, attached to Dibuk Hospital, was also verbally abused by his Thai wife. They have both publicly apologised to her saying their property had been encroached upon many times which led to their being angry and scared.
Talking to the press after a cabinet meeting at the Government House, Srettha said it is not appropriate to verbally amplify this incident as people in Thailand should live in peace with this small issue already being managed.
He added that he did not want something like this to occur but since it did he has instructed the police and Tourism and Sports Ministry to take care of the situation and underscore to foreign tourists and foreigners living here that they must strictly abide by the law.
A rally was held at Cape Yamu beach today attended by both local people and others from various provinces nationwide who are working in Phuket to look at the villa steps where Dr. Thandao was kicked by the Swiss businessman and take photos before steps two to four are dismantled as it has been determined that they were built on public land, Naewna newspaper said.
The atmosphere was lively with police from Thalang station, district officials, village headmen and village health volunteers watching the gathering to ensure it remained peaceful.
Some of the participants carried paper signs demanding the return of public space.
One sign said, “We urge officials responsible for beachfront areas in Phuket to survey and demarcate them and also do so at similar beachfront zones in other provinces.”
Another sign said, “Return the beach to the people.”
Meanwhile in Pattaya the British man and his Thai wife showed up at Na Jomtien police station for questioning after the former had thrown a glass at a Thai woman in a dog cafe upon getting annoyed that the dog with her was barking loudly on the night of Mar. 1 cutting her arm.
The unidentified man drove off without waiting for police to show up after he wounded Ms. Amawee (surname withheld), 37.
His wife refused to let photographers take their pictures because they wanted to quietly meet the police.
The victim too is coming to this police station to give further information.
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Top and Front Page: Rally at Cape Yamu beach today, March 3, 2024. Photos: Naewna
Insert: The wounded Thai woman, left, and the British man and his Thai wife speaking to the police, right. Photo: TV Channel 7
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