Bangkok - A Swiss man will go on trial in Thailand next month facing 75 years in jail for defacing images of King Bhumibol Adulyadej during a drunken spree on the revered monarch's birthday, officials said on Wednesday.
The trial of Oliver Rudolf Jufer, 57, charged with five separate acts of lese majeste, would start on March 12 in the northern city of Chiang Mai where he lived, they said.
Police would seek consecutive jail terms for Jufer on each count carrying jail terms of between three and 15 years after he daubed the portraits of the king, whom many Thais regards as semi-divine, with black paint.
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"This is a delicate issue and we don't want the public to know much about it," Chiang Mai chief prosecutor Manoon Moongpanchon said declining to give more details.
Don't you just love the honesty of Thai public officials? I wonder what the Swiss embassy has to say about this.
Quite honestly, I don't like the idea of some guy marking up the face of the king, but he doesn't deserve to go to jail for it.
He should pay a hefty fine and leave.
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