The scene of the gang assault at a restaurant in Tangshan, Hebei, China [사진 = 웨이보 캡처]China was shocked by the indiscriminate gang violence against women. The assault case itself is controversial, but there are reports that the police delayed dispatch 4 hours after the incident and that the police did not respond properly to the violence case before, causing a strong impact. Moreover, there are many voices calling for strict punishment, even raising rumors of a coalition between the perpetrators and local public security.
According to foreign media such as Observer Network on the 12th, at 2:40 a.m. on the 10th, nine men brutally assaulted four women who refused to molest them at a restaurant in Tangsin.
The suspects, who were of strong stature, began to touch the back of one of the women who were eating at the restaurant. It was an outright sexual assault, and when the woman resisted it, she immediately punched her. He started assaulting inside the restaurant, dragged him outside the restaurant, knocked down women on the road and assaulted them at random.
Two of the women who were assaulted suffered serious injuries such as torn faces, and the other two women who stopped the assault also suffered minor injuries.
Chinese netizens have petitioned for severe punishment when CCTV of the scene of an incident in which strong men brutally beat women was released on the Internet.
Netizens called for severe punishment by tagging the official accounts of the Chinese Public Security Bureau on Weibo, a Chinese social media site, saying, “Criminals who indiscriminately assault powerless women should never be allowed to appear in society again.” did.
The perpetrators, who leisurely left the scene in a taxi before the police were dispatched, were caught by Chinese police within one day of the incident. However, as the investigation into the case was assigned to the nearby Langfang City Public Security Bureau, not the Tangshan City Public Security Bureau, suspicions are emerging between the perpetrator and the public security officer.
As a result of the Chinese public security investigation, it is known that five of the suspects have criminal convictions, and some of the suspects run construction companies and restaurants.
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