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Jackie Chan faces police probe for keeping firearms
By Li Qian |
December 18, 2012, Tuesday
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KUNG fu film star Jackie Chan implicated himself recently by boasting that he once fought off gangsters with three handguns and six grenades. He is now facing police investigation for illegal possession of firearms.
According to today's Sing Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper, Jackie Chan told a popular Chinese magazine, Southern People Weekly, that he was once cornered by more than 20 knife-wielding gangsters and he had to use three guns and six grenades to keep them off.
Hong Kong police noticed the report and decided to probe his claim because Chan is a global celebrity and his love of firearms could send a wrong message and challenge the law of the society, Sing Pao said.
Under the Hong Kong laws, anyone must get a license for possessing guns and is forbidden to carry firearms in public without a sufficient reason. Jackie Chan may face jail terms of up to life in prison, the paper said.
However, it is hard to collect enough evidences against him, the paper said.
According to today's Sing Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper, Jackie Chan told a popular Chinese magazine, Southern People Weekly, that he was once cornered by more than 20 knife-wielding gangsters and he had to use three guns and six grenades to keep them off.
Hong Kong police noticed the report and decided to probe his claim because Chan is a global celebrity and his love of firearms could send a wrong message and challenge the law of the society, Sing Pao said.
Under the Hong Kong laws, anyone must get a license for possessing guns and is forbidden to carry firearms in public without a sufficient reason. Jackie Chan may face jail terms of up to life in prison, the paper said.
However, it is hard to collect enough evidences against him, the paper said.
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