Briton denies inciting Red Shirt riots in Bangkok
A BRITON arrested in Thailand after being filmed inciting people to burn down a shopping centre during the Red Shirt protests claimed yesterday he was "being stitched up".
Jeff Savage, 48, was captured on video exhorting protesters to set fire to the Central World shopping centre in central Bangkok, days before it was torched and destroyed.
"I am being stitched up," he said from a Bangkok remand prison, where he was taken after being arrested on Sunday.
"I thought (my arrest] was just for overstaying my visa, but now this is serious. They are trying to pin a whole lot of stuff on me, and a few others that we had nothing to do with. We are being made scapegoats."
Dozens of people were killed and injured during violent demonstrations that paralysed the capital. A curfew remains in place in Bangkok and in 23 other Thai provinces.
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