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Beijing airport blast accused says explosion ‘an accident’
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A MAN in a wheelchair charged with causing an explosion at Beijing Capital International Airport in July told a court yesterday that the explosive he made himself to attract attention to long-unresolved complaints went off by accident.
Ji Zhongxing appeared at the Beijing Chaoyang District People’s Court on a special bed.
He lost his left hand in the blast and a police officer suffered minor burns.
Prosecutors said Ji took a bus from his home in Juancheng County, Shandong Province, to Beijing on July 20.
They said he detonated the device outside the airport’s Terminal 3 arrivals exit at around 6pm.
The court heard that Ji was left paralyzed after being attacked by police assistants in 2005 in Dongguan, a city of the southern Guangdong Province. But his claims for compensation and demands for his alleged attackers to be punished had been rejected over the past eight years and that had left him suffering from depression.
Ji decided he needed to cause “chaos” to focus public attention on his case. He made his device using gunpowder from firecrackers as he didn’t want anyone to get hurt.
The court was told he had shouted a warning for everyone to stay away from him at the airport.
Ji told the court his nervousness had triggered the explosion when he tried to stop the police officer grabbing the device.
“I am very sorry and regretful. I hope the court can give me a chance,” Ji said. “Disputes shouldn’t be resolved in a dangerous way.”
Under Chinese law, anyone found guilty of causing an explosion or endangering public security by other means, and where there are no serious consequences, faces a jail terms between three and 10 years.
The court is due to issue its verdict at a later date.
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