Police charged three drunk Thai men with theft after they brandished a large knife and gun in an attempt to rob a overseas tourist in the Khao San space of Bangkok. The robbery try took place outdoors the Tang Hua Seng department store in Banglamphu. The sufferer was a Romanian tourist.
The three are presently being held at Nang Loeng Police Station The drunk robbery suspects denied the costs and even tried accountable the vacationer for the incident, claiming it was a drug deal gone bad.
The 28 year old Romanian tourist was waiting to catch a bus for a trip to Koh Kood. Three drunk Thai men aged 24 and 25 attacked the vacationer. Two of the men had weapons with one flashing a gun in his waistband and another waving a one-foot-long knife.
The vacationer panicked and agreed at hand over 1,800 baht and a 36,000-baht Xiaomi phone to the robbers. Luckily, as he was laying the phone on the bottom, police arrived and intervened. The Romanian man received all his belongings back safely.
The drunk suspects denied the robbery costs and claimed they are not thieves, just drug sellers. They mentioned they have been only within the space to promote cannabis. When trying to sell the considerably authorized drug to the Romanian vacationer, he had put a pinky to his nostril, the universal signal that he wanted cocaine.
Being law-abiding weed sellers, they told the man, in fact, that they didn’t have any cocaine. They declare the vacationer then obtained aggressive and attacked them. They had no alternative but to drag out the massive knife in self-defence.
They additionally claimed that the gun was only a innocent prop – a Thai-made gun with a damaged barrel. Under wraps mentioned they didn’t brandish the gun in any threatening manner during the robbery. They contended that just before the police pulled up, the vacationer voluntarily put his phone on the bottom..