Macau authorities revealed Thursday that a total of 13 people have been arrested in relation to the wild brawl that broke out in a Cotai casino on Monday – all of them from mainland China.
New details of the incident were provided by the Judiciary Police (PJ) and the Public Security Police Force (PSP) at a press conference on Thursday morning, with the 13 men now banned from entering Macau for between one and five years. They were accused of fighting, supporting fighting and overstaying.
According to the authorities, 10 men were found to be the main participants in the fight, while three of the arrested did not actually fight but were cheering and shouting at the scene.
The PSP said that because video of the fight had circulated on social media, it had created a negative image of Macau tourism and was therefore being treated as a serious incident.
