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Vendors involved in Low Yat brawl no longer in mall

KUALA LUMPUR — The sales personnel involved in the alleged theft incident and subsequent fracas that led to riots outside Low Yat Plaza last Sunday (July 12) are no longer working at the shopping mall.

Mr Johnson Chan says that theft cases were usually handled without commotion. Photo: The Malay Mail Online

Mr Johnson Chan says that theft cases were usually handled without commotion. Photo: The Malay Mail Online

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KUALA LUMPUR — The sales personnel involved in the alleged theft incident and subsequent fracas that led to riots outside Low Yat Plaza last Sunday (July 12) are no longer working at the shopping mall.

The mobile phone seller who attended to a youth who has since been charged with stealing a smartphone, is said to have gone on a long vacation.

Elsewhere, the entire staff of the Oppo mobile phone store that was vandalised has also been moved to outlets in other malls.

Mr Johnson Chan, 24, who was manning the Digi kiosk on the first floor of the plaza, said his colleague took the opportunity to go on a break during the festive break as the latter has not done so in a long time.

“We are not afraid because this was an isolated incident,” he told Malay Mail Online, saying that theft cases were usually handled without commotion.

“So happened this guy’s friends came back and trashed the phone shop where the staff had blocked him from escaping,” he told Malay Mail Online today.

Mr Chan, who has worked at the stall for more than three years, said most of the sellers in the building would help each other out, alerting one another of thefts and joining in to foil suspects from escaping.

This camaraderie of sorts was because salesmen were responsible to pay for stolen items, he explained.

On a visit to the Oppo outlet, Malay Mail Online was informed by the current staff members that they were all brought in from other outlets to replace the previous workers.

“We don’t know what happened to the old staff, but we were all transferred from elsewhere and we only started work on Thursday.

“We don’t know anything,” said a salesgirl who did not want to be named.

Last Sunday riots took place after the arrest of a Malay youth for allegedly stealing a smartphone at the mall turned into rumours that he was cheated into buying a counterfeit product by a Chinese vendor.

The youth’s friends returned following his arrest and attacked a mobile phone store, assaulting workers and causing an estimated RM70,000 (S$25,200) in damage.

The altercation led to a mob gathering the following day, which later devolved into riots that left five people injured and led to two dozen arrests. THE MALAY MAIL ONLINE

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