Man who drove into a crowd in China car gets death penalty

Man who drove into a crowd in China car gets death penalty

A man who killed 35 people by driving his car into a crowd at a sports center in southern China was sentenced to death on Friday.

The incident in Zhuhai

fan Weiqiu, 62 years old, rast with his car in a group of people who outdoors Sport drove in the city of Zhuhai. This has represented the most fatal known act of violence against the public in China for a decade.

an increase in acts of violence in China

In the past few months, China has experienced an increase in sudden violent acts that are directed against random passers -by - including children. This is done in an environment in which economic growth is stagnating and the population is increasingly unsettled in view of the usual low crime rate and omnipresent surveillance.

The court ruling

fan was convicted by the Zhuhai People's Court on Friday after he had previously guilty on the same day, the State Radio CCTV reported. Shortly after 8 p.m. on November 11, Fan drove his car into the crowd, which was attributed to his failed handling and what he regarded as an unjust divorce regulation, according to the court.

The deed and its consequences

When his small off -road vehicle raced over the area of the Zhuhai Sportzentrum, he saw numerous people who trained around a race track. After the attack, the officials found fan in the car while trying to injure himself with a knife, and brought him to the hospital, according to the police.

judicial evaluation and political reactions

"The court found that the criminal behavior of the accused fan Weiqiu was hideous; the nature of the crime was particularly brutal; the way the crime was committed was particularly cruel," the CCTV reports quoted the court decision. The attack has resulted in the highest number of fatalities since 2014 when a number of attacks shook the far western region of Xinjiang.

political consequences

The incident led China's leader Xi Jinping, who described the attack as "extremely malignant", called for strict punishments, as CCTV previously reported. Fan’s verdict was made just a few days after another incident, in which a person who raced a lot in front of a primary school in the central province of Hunan and injured 30 people, including 18 students, a Standed death penalty received.

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