A 62-year-old man, Fan Weiqiu, who killed 35 people in a deliberate car attack in Zhuhai, China, was sentenced to death after a swift trial.
A 62-year-old man who killed 35 in a Zhuhai car attack was sentenced to death in a swift trial, state media reports.A man who killed 35 people in a car attack in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai last month was sentenced to death on Friday, state media reported. On November 11, 62-year-old Fan Weiqiu deliberately drove through people exercising outside a sports complex in his small SUV, the worst attack in China since 2014.
He was detained at the scene with self-inflicted knife wounds and fell into a coma, police said at the time. His case was publicly tried on Friday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, with the verdict reached on the same day. The court said the defendant’s motives “were extremely vile, the nature of the crime extremely egregious, the methods particularly cruel, and the consequences particularly severe, posing significant harm to society”, state media said.In front of some of the victims’ families, officials and members of the public, Fan pleaded guilty, it added.The court found Fan had “decided to vent his anger” over “a broken marriage, personal frustrations, and dissatisfaction with the division of property after divorce”, the report said.Violent crime is generally rare in China compared to many Western countries, but the country has seen a string of mass casualty incidents this year. Stabbings and car attacks have challenged its reputation for good public security, unsettling residents and officials alike. Some analysts have linked the incidents to growing anger and desperation at the country’s slowing economy and a sense that society is becoming more stratified. In Zhuhai, it took officials nearly 24 hours to reveal that dozens had died, and videos and discussion of the attack were censored on social media. A makeshift memorial outside the sports centre was cleared within hours, with a worker telling AFP they were acting on an “order from the top
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