Deadly car attack on November 11 that killed 35 people, immediate arrest, death sentence in a public trial on December 27 and execution in a Zhuhai prison on Monday, January 20. Rarely has Chinese justice been so expeditious and communicative. This deliberate murderous attack shocked public opinion, which had not experienced such domestic violence for years. For the authorities, it was therefore necessary to make an example: Fan Weiqiu, 62, was executed by injection, barely three months after committing his bloody crime. The court underlined during the trial, three weeks ago, motivations “extremely despicable, the nature of the crime particularly egregious, the method particularly cruel, and the consequences particularly serious, inflicting significant harm on society,” according to official television channel CCTV. Fan Weiqiu “decided to express his anger” following “a broken marriage, his dissatisfaction about the division of property after divorce and personal frustrations”, assures this media. In recent months, China has been the scene of several deadly attacks carried out by isolated individuals that the Xi Jinping regime is quick to remove from social networks. These acts seem to reflect the deep frustrations of an angry society in a very degraded economic context. At the end of December, a man who rushed into a crowd in front of a school was also sentenced to death, but with a suspended sentence. Executions by the thousands “Faced with a plummeting economy, crushing household debt and growing frustrations “and stronger, anger can only be expressed through this kind of violence”, estimated a few weeks ago in La Croix Desmond Shum, a former Chinese businessman in exile for years in Great Britain, who remained in close relationship with economic circles. “Social insecurity continues to grow, and economic despair is pushing many Chinese to individual violence,” adds this observer, who has counted dozens of these cases of fatal incidents since the start of the year. But executions are not always publicly revealed. Beijing indeed keeps its official figures concerning the death penalty under the seal of state secrecy. Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, estimate that thousands of people are executed each year in the country. In China, 46 types of offenses can lead to capital punishment.
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Publish date : 2025-01-20 15:43:08
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