Four individuals waiting to be deported to their home country are facing added charges after engaging in a street brawl that involved 12 people in total, the Public Security Police Force (PSP) reported during the joint police press conference yesterday.
All 12 people are Vietnamese nationals, four of whom are pending deportation. The police department apprehended eight of the brawl participants, including one woman, aged between 25 and 34 years old.
Among them, four were holding a valid blue-card and working in Macau providing cleaning services, maintenance services, and massage services, while the legal status of the other four is being investigated by a temporary identity recognizance issued by the immigration authority.
According to PJ, the 12 people are responsible for a brawl that took place on the night of January 21 near Bairro Iao Hon, located in the northern district of Macau peninsula.
Police officers were unable to catch the group of people on-site because, by the time they arrived on the scene, the culprits were already gone.
CCTV surveillance feeds recorded the brawl, in which prohibited weapons (knives), iron hoses and umbrellas were used.
On the same night, at 10:30 p.m., patrol officers apprehended one of the men, according to whom the brawl involved two separate groups of Vietnamese nationals, one group consisting of seven members and the other five.
The two groups were negotiating a dispute before they started fighting.
Based on the first apprehended man’s information, the police authority was then able to trace down seven other individuals from different locations on February 2, February 6 and February 8.
The police also found that one of the captured men was in possession of prohibited drugs (MDMA) and the suspect said that he had purchased the drugs from a stranger at a disco located at Zona de Aterros do Porto Exterior with each tablet of MDMA costing him 200 patacas.
PSP submitted the information to the prosecution authority and proposed to charge seven of the arrested individuals with illicit possession of prohibited weapons. One of the seven has also been charged with possession of prohibited drugs.
PSP also seized one 79-centimeter long knife at the brawl site. The bureau is still investigating the whereabouts of the remaining four individuals.
The police authority is still organizing the deportation process of four of the men, who were convicted of the charges of illicitly sheltering others, assault and the distribution of drugs.
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