News Forum - Cockle Wars: Fishers sentenced to jail over clash with officers, freeing suspect

[Thaiger]

Four fishermen involved in a clash with authorities back in 2019, where fishers ganged up to against officers to release a suspect and a boat full of shellfish the officers seized, have been sentenced to a year in jail. The fishermen were found guilty of operating a cockle farm illegally and violently threatening officers which led to the escape of a suspect. The local fishers were harvesting shellfish illegally in the southern province Nakhon Si Thammarat. Reports in Thai media say the fishers had support from an “influential person” in the province who supported the illegal acitivites. A few years […]

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[a3tsw]

So , the fishers are off to jail for a year , but no action taken against the "influential person" behind the whole scheme.

Edited March 31, 2022 by a3tsw
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