Hong Kong police were on high alert on Friday, ramping up street patrols with some wearing extra protective vests and others monitoring internet chatter for signs of copycat attacks or incitement, a day after a man described by authorities as a “lone-wolf domestic terrorist”that the lone assailant, identified as a 50-year-old man who worked as a purchasing agent at the Vitasoy drinks company, had left behind several suicide notes declaring his hatred of police, his opposition to the...
He underwent emergency surgery at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam on Thursday night and Friday morning, and his condition had improved from critical to serious as of publication time. “The hospital emphasised that medical staff have always upheld professionalism and provided equal services to all patients. It is hoped that outsiders will not make unfounded remarks and stop forwarding false information,” a spokesman said.
Police also hit out at internet users praising the attacker as a “martyr”, as some people visited the area outside Sogo to lay flowers in his memory.In a statement on Facebook, a police spokesman strongly condemned acts that “glorified violence and provoked hatred”. On Friday evening, there was heavy police presence at the scene of the attack in Causeway Bay. A number of people holding flowers were stopped by officers. Some individuals were escorted to the side of the road for questioning or to be searched.Asked if frontline officers were worried about their safety, Lam Chi-wai, chairman of the Junior Police Officers’ Association, said he was certain that the management would “make appropriate arrangements”.
Social science experts warned against glorifying a suicidal attacker as a “martyr”, fearing that it could result in copycat crimes, but they also urged authorities to allow residents to vent their emotional stress using lawful meansA police insider said officers had raided the knifeman’s home in the Kowloon neighbourhood of San Po Kong soon after the attack, finding about five suicide notes addressed to different people and a large amount of what was described as propaganda material.
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