Hong Kong protests: police on defensive as radicals threaten bombing campaign against officers’ living quarters
- Force to increase security around accommodation after online appeal
- Move comes after wave of petrol bomb attacks against police stations and patrol car in past 24 hours
Hong Kong police planned to increase security around officers’ quarters across the city on Thursday force insiders said, after an online appeal by radicals to firebomb their accommodation.
The threat followed petrol bomb attacks on four police stations and a patrol car within 24 hours in a new wave of action over the government’s failure to close the city’s border and supply protective gear in response to the Wuhan virus.
“They vent their anger on the force because they treat the force as the government’s fighters,” one source said.
The source said it seemed to be the “twisted logic” used by radical protesters to continue their fight against the government.
Enhanced security around police quarters came after a message of “burn doghouse” was posted on Telegram, an app used by anti-government protesters who call police quarters a doghouse.
“Police will enhance patrol and surveillance around quarters in an effort to deter such possible attacks,” another source said.
