Man held over attack on owner of Japanese car
By Xu Chi and Zi Chen |
October 3, 2012, Wednesday
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Police say they have caught the man who attacked the owner of a Japanese car during protests in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
The man, surnamed Cai, hit the Toyota Corolla owner with a U-shaped steering-wheel lock, causing him to suffer severe brain damage, police said yesterday.
In a set of photographs taken during the protest and posted online, Cai can be seen smiling as he smashes Japanese cars on September 15.
Yesterday, Xi'an police added another picture to the set - Cai in the back seat of a police car.
There were protests in many Chinese cities on September 15 and 16 sparked by Japan's so-called "purchase" of China's Diaoyu Islands.
The car owner, Li Jianli, 51, is said to be partially paralyzed and is receiving treatment in hospital. Doctors said the brain damage had affected his ability to speak and he could only say one or two simple words.
A video of the violence was posted online, prompting much soul-searching over the anti-Japan protests.
Li was in the downtown area of Xi'an, looking for an apartment for his soon-to-be-married son, but happened to come across one of the anti-Japanese demonstrations.
He and his wife got out of his car to plead with protesters not to wreck his vehicle.
The couple can be heard pleading: "Please don't smash our car. We earned it from hard daily work." They added: "We were wrong to purchase a Japanese-brand car, but we won't do it again."
But that didn't stop the protesters. The video shows Li lying bleeding on the pavement as a young man repeatedly hits him on the head before moving on to attack the car.
The arrest sparked heated discussion online.
"What a sick criminal beating innocent people in the name of patriotism. Now the National Day holiday has become his payback day," was one comment.
The man, surnamed Cai, hit the Toyota Corolla owner with a U-shaped steering-wheel lock, causing him to suffer severe brain damage, police said yesterday.
In a set of photographs taken during the protest and posted online, Cai can be seen smiling as he smashes Japanese cars on September 15.
Yesterday, Xi'an police added another picture to the set - Cai in the back seat of a police car.
There were protests in many Chinese cities on September 15 and 16 sparked by Japan's so-called "purchase" of China's Diaoyu Islands.
The car owner, Li Jianli, 51, is said to be partially paralyzed and is receiving treatment in hospital. Doctors said the brain damage had affected his ability to speak and he could only say one or two simple words.
A video of the violence was posted online, prompting much soul-searching over the anti-Japan protests.
Li was in the downtown area of Xi'an, looking for an apartment for his soon-to-be-married son, but happened to come across one of the anti-Japanese demonstrations.
He and his wife got out of his car to plead with protesters not to wreck his vehicle.
The couple can be heard pleading: "Please don't smash our car. We earned it from hard daily work." They added: "We were wrong to purchase a Japanese-brand car, but we won't do it again."
But that didn't stop the protesters. The video shows Li lying bleeding on the pavement as a young man repeatedly hits him on the head before moving on to attack the car.
The arrest sparked heated discussion online.
"What a sick criminal beating innocent people in the name of patriotism. Now the National Day holiday has become his payback day," was one comment.
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