Austrian deported after drunken disturbance in Phuket
published : 21 May 2026 at 07:52
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Achadthaya Chuenniran
Phuket immigration authorities have revoked the visa of a 39-year-old Austrian man and ordered him deported after he repeatedly harassed local residents while drunk in the Rawai area.
Police and immigration officers took action on Tuesday after a video widely shared online showed an intoxicated man riding a motorcycle while blocking traffic and aggressively demanding money from people.
Investigators found that the suspect, identified only as Raphael, had entered the kingdom on a temporary student visa to study Thai language and culture. He had previously received a warning for similar behaviour but reoffended shortly afterwards, they said.
Immigration officials said his conduct — public intoxication, harassment and intimidation — was damaging to public order, Thai cultural values and the country’s tourism image.
His permission to remain in the kingdom has been revoked and he is being expelled from Thailand, they said.
Vocabulary
- aggressively (adv): in a way that shows force and determination in order to succeed - อย่างตั้งใจจริง, อย่างมุ่งมั่น, อย่างแน่วแน่
- behaviour: the way that someone acts or behaves - พฤติกรรม, การกระทำตัว
- conduct: the way someone behaves, especially in relation to particular rules or accepted ways of behaving - ความประพฤติ
- deport: to send someone out of a country, usually because they do not have a legal right to be there - เนรเทศออกจากประเทศ, ส่งตัวกลับประเทศ
- disturbance: an occasion during which people behave in a noisy or violent way in a public place - ก่อความไม่สงบ หรือรบกวนประชาชน
- expelled: to force someone to leave a school, organisation or country (the noun form is expulsion) - ขับไล่,ไล่ออก
- harassment: annoying or worrying somebody by putting pressure on them or saying or doing unpleasant things to them - การข่มขู่, การรบกวน, การก่อกวน
- intimidation: deliberately making someone feel frightened, especially so that they will do what you want - ขู่ขวัญ
- intoxicated: having had too much of an alcoholic drink, a drug, etc. - มึนเมา
- offend: to commit a crime against; to cause someone to be upset or angry - ฝ่าฝืนกฎ, ซึ่งก่อให้เกิดความขุ่นเคือง
- order: a situation in which everything is well organized or arranged - ความเป็นระเบียบเรียบร้อย
- revoke: to officially say that something is no longer legal - เพิกถอน
