A Chinese court has sentenced a man who injured more than a dozen children by deliberately driving into them outside a primary school in central China to death sentence suspended for two years.
Eighteen school children and thirty others were injured in a case in Changde City that occurred on 19th November. It was the third incident of crowd targeting within a week in China.
Unlike the case with Huang Wen which has received a suspended death sentence, he could instead be imprisoned for life if he does not rear his head again in the next two years.
However the ruling attracted controversy on social media, some groups of the social media labeled it as the court was lenient on Huang.
And in a statement the court recorded that the suspect, Huang managed to attack as he was frustrated to deal with the investment loss and family conflict issues.
The verdict was the first time when the number of the wounded from the Changde City event was known. Most of the posts about it has since been deleted on most social media platforms.
Only few days ago, a man who felt dissatisfied with the alimony granted to his wife in the divorce process, sped a car and knocked down a crowd in Zhuhai, 35 people died.
Such attacks have been described by some observers as vengeful missions against society in one way or the other. Some people have accused these events as acting as venting of frustrations to some people on the Chinese economy.
“Why should he be suspended?” one Weibo user said of Huang.
“For such vicious cases, this has to be treated seriously or acted on with the swiftness required for deterrence,” another added.
Valeri videos that I watched within the first ten minutes of their attack included children lying down on the ground, others running away in the middle of the incident, and another man vigorously pounding on Huang’s car with a snow shovel as Huang was still in the vehicle.
The court noted that the actions Huang took at that time were accompanied by “especially severe criminal conditions” he was in.
In addition, for life, political rights were withdrawn from the Huang as a part of his sentence.
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