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Police will release 50 Cambodian students while the owner of the club is wanted

Phnom Penh: Mr San Sothy, The deputy director of Anti-drug department of ministry of interior said, 50 Shisha smokers (11 female) will be released after they were bailed out by their parents when their parents came to make an agreement with the police.

Mr San Sothy confirmed that with the advice from General Mork Cheato of Deputy National Police Commissioner Drug and the approval from prosecutor of Phnom Penh court Mr Om Sopheak, the police called their parents to come to sign on an agreement in order to bail them out and moreover they were informed that their children didn’t go to school, but they went to smoke Shisha instead.

According to Mr San Sothy, those 50 Cambodian students (11 female) were arrested in a raid in a club called (Sahara ?) in Tonle Basak commune, Chamkarmom district. Most of them are second and third year students in some universities in Phnom Penh.

The high ranking officer stressed that recently police is chasing the owner of the club that located behind Australian embassy, Phnom Penh who had been making Shisha drug available for youths in Phnom Penh.

The raid carried out on 29 May 2015. Police confiscated 20 hookahs, 2 packs of mixed Sihsha powder, 39 motorbikes and 2 samuria swords.




















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shisha drug?
what the hell is that?

I'm guessing those allowed to wear dust masks in the first few photos are 'connected'?

What a load of Cr*p! Money source for the useless corrupt cops. People even smoke it openly in anti-drug crazed Thailand. (Bangkok/Arab street)

Shisha is a type of tobacco is it not? dont know why they banned it in the first place tbh
plus most places just use the flavoured charcoals and not real tobacco?

Jamie_Lambo wrote:Shisha is a type of tobacco is it not? dont know why they banned it in the first place tbh
plus most places just use the flavoured charcoals and not real tobacco?

They banned it because "shisha and e-cigarettes are drugs which get youths hooked and make them neglect their studies and work, and may lead to serious problems for the nation" http://m.phnompenhpost.com/national/shi ... nationwide

The shisha bars were very popular a while back (when CNRP were demonstrating) and were packed with teenagers/twenty somethings...I reckon HS was weary of the 'talk' that was going on inside.

This current raid was quite a big operation;
http://www.police.gov.kh/news/socail-se ... 0607099900 and involved the SWAT Team: fully kitted out with their kneepads.

However, the main man managed to slip away in his plateless Porsche

http://kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh/article/120952.html

As the last paragraph of the Koh Santepheap article rightly asks, why was this place that was so widely known able to sell Shisha and operate for so long without being cracked down upon?

Hahaha, I think I recognise a former student form a school near the embassy, LOL.

I don't see how it could be interfering with their studies, they don't study. They pay money and get the certificate. End of.

Maybe the shisha bars are competition for their schools, LOL

No jokes re SISHA and bars, please.

It's good to know that the govt has priorities. It is more important (and much easier) to target shisha smoking than such triffles as infrastructure, education, health facilities, corruption, illegal logging, pollution, sanitation etc.

" in order to bail them out"

Cerchez le argent

I guess they had to use all the SWAT weapons and uniforms they got from the Chinese for selling them Ream Park to rape.