Sunday evening shopping at Siam Paragon was disrupted by splattered soda and flying shards of glass when an emotionally disturbed ultra-royalist erupted in a violent and disturbing declaration of his love for the monarchy.
Kaneshpitsanuthep “K 100 million” Chakkraphopmahadecha, who’s become infamous for volatile incidents that don’t seem to go punished, went into a frenzy pouring bottles of red soda onto himself as he paraded through the mall holding a framed portrait of King Vajiralongkorn and shouting incomprehensibly.
In one moment captured on video, he violently threw a glass bottle onto the ground which shattered and sent broken glass flying into passers-by.
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Just yesterday, witnesses said he was doing the same thing at Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Another video purportedly showed him being led away by airport security at around 3pm on Sunday.
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That didn’t seem to slow him down. People last night criticized the luxury shopping mall’s security for failing to act quickly against Kaneshpitsanuthep, who has become known as K 100 Million due to his apparent large real estate wealth.
Tabloid headlines have dubbed Kaneshpitsanuthep a “mad man.”
Several calls this morning to the Pathumwan Police went unanswered. A representative answering the phone at Siam Paragon this morning said they were “working on the issue.”
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After this story was published, Siam Paragon management apologized in a statement Monday afternoon that said one person was injured. The mall insisted that its security team had the man immediately “under control.”
“We coordinated with the police at later time … there was one person injured by broken glass, whom we apologized to and will compensate for treatment,” the statement read.
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In 2019, it appeared to be the same man who parked his Mercedes-Benz in front of the CentralwOrld shopping mall, where he loosed two snakes and cut himself with a knife. He also prostrated in front of a car with portraits of His Majesty the King laid out on top.
Update: This story was updated with a statement from mall management.
