Protesters fear chaos at next CY Leung public meeting
Security tightened after clashes at first event amid claims chief executive is linked to triads
Protesters fear there could be chaos during Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s next meet-the-people session on Sunday.
Their increased concern comes amid accusations by the Civic Party and others that Leung has links to triad groups – an allegation his office strenuously denies – and due to a lack of public space around the meeting venue.
The police have also been accused of a pro-government bias in their allegedly lenient treatment of suspected triads in clashes between pro-government and pro-democracy crowds at Leung’s first public meeting last Sunday, and the force is likely to be tested at this Sunday’s event.
Pan-democrats planning a “silent protest” tomorrow said the pavements around the meeting venue, Kwun Tong Kung Lok Government Secondary School, were too narrow to accommodate protesters from all camps.
Police were stepping up security and surveillance inside and outside the school yesterday, installing CCTV cameras on its upper floors and on the rooftop of a building opposite, and readying more than 200 iron barriers and rolls of wire netting.
A police spokesman said the cameras were not for recording.
