The inspection on West Bui Vien Street is part of the military launch plan, unexpectedly inspecting cultural facilities, cultural business venues with conditions, potential complications on security and order in Ho Chi Minh City.
On the morning of April 8, the delegation of the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department consisted of many forces: Police for Social Order Administration, Criminal Police, Economic Police, and Drug Crime Investigation Police. , Police of Fire Prevention – Rescue, Criminal Engineering and Mobile Police Regiment suddenly checked some beer bars on Bui Vien West Street (Pham Ngu Lao Ward, District 1).
At Bui Vien pedestrian street, the presence of the police force caused many beer bars to be in disarray.
Previously, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Huu Nam Phong, head of the 2nd section of the mission, said that according to news sources, there are hundreds of people in the beer club that the team will check, including guests and staff. Some tables in this bar are suspected of illegal drug use.
The functional forces work with the manager of the beer bars on West Bui Vien Street.
When the functional forces began to check the beer club Volcano (70 Bui Vien), many guests intended to leave but were asked by the police to stay to cooperate in the inspection.
At this time, a working group asked the shop manager to open the door of a locked room on the 1st floor for the functional forces to check. This person repeatedly refused, using the excuse that the room key was carried by the staff, went out, but then was forced to comply with the request of the working group.
As noted, the room door just opened, the smell of chemicals has spread strongly. Inside the room, there are dozens of shisa pots and a large capacity oven (used to heat coals and burn shisa for guests). According to observation, this room has no other exit.
The manager said that this is the room used by the restaurant to prepare shisa pots for guests