Taipei, Dec. 12 (CNA) The Control Yuan has impeached four police officers for their role in deleting surveillance footage last year of nine men storming Taipei's Zhonglun Police Station before leaving without being arrested.
Intruder charged but police station cover-up suspects not indicted
05/11/2021 01:51 PM
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Taipei District Prosecutors Office spokesperson Chen Yu-ping (陳玉萍) tells reporters about the indictments during a press conference. CNA photo May 11, 2021
Taipei, May 11 (CNA) Taipei prosecutors have charged one of the suspects who stormed into a police station last month for damaging public property but have decided not to prosecute the former chief of the station for covering up the incident.
In its indictment Tuesday, the Taipei District Prosecutors Office charged a man surnamed Hsu (徐) for destroying a computer at the Zhonglun Police Station in Taipei s Songshan Precinct after breaking into the station early on April 16 together with nine other people.
Prosecutors charge man with storming police station
Staff writer, with CNA
Taipei prosecutors yesterday charged one suspect with damaging public property at a police station, but did not pursue charges against the station’s former chief, who was accused of covering up an incident in which a group stormed into the building.
The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office charged a man surnamed Hsu (徐) over the destruction of a computer at the Zhonglun Police Station in Songshan Precinct after he allegedly entered the station early on April 16 with nine other people.
The group earlier had a dispute with police officer Yang Chung-li (楊忠蒞), a physical skills instructor, who entered the station to get away from them, but the group followed him into the building at about 2am.
The Taipei Police Department at a news conference yesterday revealed recovered surveillance footage from Songshan Precinct’s Zhonglun Police Station that was allegedly deleted by the station’s former director.
At about 2am on April 16, a group of 10 people stormed into the station as they pursued precinct physical training instructor Yang Chung-li (楊忠蒞) following an argument, and allegedly damaged a computer at the station.
Surveillance footage from the incident had been missing, and former station director Hsu Shu-huan (許書桓) who was removed from the post on Thursday had previously said he deleted it by accident.
At yesterday’s news conference,