Michael Truong, 36, was apprehended by a group of concerned citizens after they saw him allegedly lighting a fire in East Gippsland
Posted on 01/09/2020 9:51:13 AM PST by Red Badger
A New South Wales man accused of lighting a blaze in fire-ravaged Victoria has been been hit with death threats.
Michael Truong, 36, of no fixed address, was apprehended by Johnsonville locals - about 20 kilometres east of Bairnsdale in Victoria's fire-torn east - last week.
Daily Mail Australia has been told Truong faced-off with a horde of angry locals during his appearance at Bairnsdale Magistrates' Court, where he was charged with lighting a bushfire.
More than half-a-billion hectares of land in Victoria has been burnt out in East Gippsland, with dozens of properties lost and many remote communities left without power and phone coverage.
Three people have been confirmed dead in Victoria's east, with the death of Mat Kavanagh last Friday being confirmed as bushfire-related.
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Michael Truong, 36, was apprehended by a group of concerned citizens after they saw him allegedly lighting a fire in East Gippsland
Burn him.
Bet he’s not even an Australian citizen.
I bet he’s a muslim....................
Vietnamese name.
SPJNK.
“...after three people died in blazes nearby...”
THAT’S a murder charge right there!
Or Indonesian
More likely an Australian Aborigine.
They have been known to set fires when hunting.
AKA Monsieur Global Warming
Just saw that...and just read Chinese too.
An Australian democrat.
Hang him from a tree a light his but on fire.He deserves that after causing the deaths and property damage he caused to people and wildlife.
What a sadistic S.O.B.He should rot in hell.
There are certain crimes in which the citizenry should rightly be given the grace of stringing up the malefactor. This is one of them.
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But it did have its place when the law refused to act either because it was inconvenient to act or because some people were intentionally exempted.
In the old west, vigilante justice disappeared when the actual law moved in and did its job.
Yes, we should give him a fair trial and THEN hang him......................
Gee, wonder if he has visted the Amazon and California in the past year? /s
Truong is a common Vietnamese name.
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