A Swiss man has been arrested in Singapore on suspicion of breaking into a high-security subway depot and spray-painting graffiti on a train, an offence punishable by caning, the police said Friday.
“We confirm that a 33-year-old Swiss male national has been arrested in relation to the case,” a spokesman for the Singapore Police Force told AFP. No further details were available pending the investigation into the incident, which took place in May.
The Swiss embassy in Singapore had no immediate comment.
Subway operator SMRT said it was helping police with the investigation, but gave no further information.
The train has been scrubbed clean but a clip on video-sharing site Youtube — still visible at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CV4JYKBEQo [1] — shows the vandalised train as it left a suburban station.
The Straits Times newspaper reported Friday that the suspect was believed to have cut his way into the depot, a restricted zone surrounded by fences topped with barbed wire. Singapore considers itself a prime target of Asian extremists and lists the train system among possible points of attack, along with the airport and US-linked establishments.
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Father dies fearing press spotlight
Dhaka, June 4: The father of a girl who was stalked by a youth in Bangladesh died of a heart attack as he feared media attention.
Saiful Islam Munna, a resident of Bogra town, died outside the police station moments after pleading with journalists not to click photographs and run the story of his daughter being stalked. The tension proved too much for Munna who feared it would make it very difficult for him to marry off his daughter, a Class 8 student, the Daily Star said.
Munna had managed to nab the stalker, Shamim Ahmed, with the help of some relatives and handed him over to the police Wednesday afternoon.
Shamim, a trainee clerk at Bogra Judge Court, was caught when he was pulling Shila by her hand near her school. —IANS
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[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CV4JYKBEQo