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Rampaging protesters’ trail of destruction in Hong Kong’s legislature revealed, with doors and windows smashed, walls defaced and monitors wrecked
- Damage revealed during 1½-hour tour for journalists to survey the vandalism inside the building
- Insults and slogans sprayed on wall included ‘Dog officials’ and ‘Down down Carrie Lam’
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Smashed glass doors, broken monitors, electronic control panels and surveillance cameras wrenched from their positions and vandalised meeting rooms told of the volume of violence used by anti-government protesters who breached Hong Kong’s legislature on Monday.
The damage was fully revealed on Wednesday during a 1½-hour tour organised by the Legislative Council Secretariat for journalists to survey the inside of the building, which had been sealed off by police for their continuing investigation.
The power was still working and lighting and air conditioning appeared to be in good condition on the lower floors. Reporters did not visit lawmakers’ offices, located on the higher floors.
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Inside the building, anti-government slogans and insults had been spray-painted on many of the walls by protesters who were demanding the city’s leader, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, step down and for the now-suspended extradition bill to be completely withdrawn.
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Some read: “Dog officials”, “Down down Carrie Lam” and “We want genuine universal suffrage”.
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