The Bangkok governor has promised to close down three illegal markets operating at the Seri Villa housing estate where two angry women attacked a market-goer's parked pickup truck blocking their driveway.
Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang said during a visit to the estate on Wednesday that three of the five markets there were operating illegally.
One of the three sites had a permit for a building that was not a market and two others had no permits at all. The other two markets had commercial licences and goods could be sold there, he said
The three markets without proper licences would be closed down.
Boonsri Saengyoktrakan, 57, and her sister Ratanachat Saengyoktrakarn, 61, became enraged on Sunday after they were prevented from driving out of the gate at their house because a pickup truck was parked right in front of it.
When they were unable to move the vehicle, they sounded their horn for about half an hour before finally beginning their assault on the pickup with an axe and a metal pole.
The family told reporters on Tuesday that they had suffered for nearly a decade through such irresponsibly parked vehicles and the poor environment resulting from the markets' presence in the housing estate, and could take it no more.
Signs had for a long time been attached to the front gate of the residence telling people not to park across the driveway entrance.
Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit, president of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, said on Wednesday that the family had filed a complaint with the commission in 2011 and it was investigating the local authorities who let the markets operate illegally in the housing estate.
Tawatchai Thaikeo, permanent secretary for justice, posted on his Facebook account that the issue was about the quality of law enforcement.
