The Office of the Investigation Police Agency under Da Nang City Police said June 9 that it had opened a criminal case and was investigating the man for disturbing public order.
Australian outlets identified him as Shaymus Lilly, 34, a marketing entrepreneur from Western Australia who had been living in the nearby town of Hoi An.
The episode unfolded in the early hours of May 30 at Ge Cafe on Le Hong Phong Street in Hai Chau Ward. Staff told Australian media that Lilly arrived shortly before midnight and sat without ordering, and that a customer used a translation app to help communicate with him. Lilly took the customer's phone, scrolled through it and refused to return it, then pulled off his shirt and smashed the device, warning everyone to leave within 10 seconds.
He went on to wreck the cafe with a wooden chair, shattering glass doors and destroying laptops, lights, the coffee machine, the grinder and rows of cups, according to the owner. Customers and staff fled into the street in panic, some leaving phones and laptops behind. Lilly then climbed to the mezzanine, kicked at a door, broke more property and restrained a young man, with footage appearing to show him holding the man in a chokehold, until police arrived and subdued him. He was taken to a police station at around 12:30 a.m.
