Footage taken from a video camera shows a Thai policeman escorting Swiss Oliver Rudolf Jufer, 57, to a police station in Chiang Mai, 700 km (310 miles) north of Bangkok December 8, 2006. Jufer was arrested for defacing portraits of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej on the revered monarch's birthday and faces up to 15 years in jail, a newspaper and police said on Friday. The southeast Asian nation's lese majeste laws carry a penalty of between three and 15 years in jail for anybody found guilty of slandering or defaming a member of the royal family. The Matichon newspaper said Jufer had told police he sprayed black paint on portraits of the world's longest-reigning monarch in six villages in the province on Tuesday, the king's 79th birthday. He had admitted to being drunk at the time, the paper said. REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND)

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