Hong Kong protesters blame developer Sun Hung Kai for clashes with police in Sha Tin’s New Town Plaza

Protesters are planning to launch a campaign to boycott shopping malls owned by Hong Kong’s biggest developer

SHKP reiterates it did not call police and was unaware of their deployment in upmarket mall

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Demonstrators gather in the atrium of the New Town Plaza shopping mall on Sunday night. Photo: Bloomberg

Published: 7:00am, 16 Jul 2019Updated: 11:00am, 16 Jul 2019

Hong Kong’s biggest developer is facing a backlash from anti-government protesters who hold it responsible for clashes on Sunday between them and police in the group’s flagship mall in Sha Tin.

Protesters are planning to launch a campaign to boycott shopping malls owned by Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP).

The company reiterated on Monday it did not call police and was unaware of their deployment and dispersal operation in the New Town Plaza shopping centre in advance.

The upscale mall, which has a direct link to the Sha Tin MTR station, was the scene of pitched battles when riot police entered the building to disperse extradition bill protesters who had left the streets after a stand-off. Police went to the mall with a search warrant on Monday evening.

An SHKP spokesman said the mall’s service office received a police notice in the afternoon that the force had got a court-issued warrant to request CCTV footage from Sunday. The spokesman said the firm’s legal counsel had advised them to comply.

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