Probe after senior dies in chengguan altercation
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POLICE in southeast China said yesterday that they are investigating the death of an elderly man, after reports that he died following a beating by city enforcement officers created outrage online.
Urban management personnel — known as chengguan — enforce local regulations and have a poor reputation in China, where reports of their brutality regularly spark outcries.
The man, aged around 70, tried to mediate in a dispute between officers and a market vendor in Fuzhou City in Fujian Province, the Strait News said.
Chengguan are said to have assaulted the senior and he died at the scene, the newspaper reported on its Sina Weibo microblog account.
It forwarded a posting that quoted witnesses as saying two chengguan chased the man for “dozens of meters.” At one point, one officer was strangling the elderly man while the other punched him, the post claimed.
“We are investigating at the scene,” a local police officer surnamed Chen said, confirming only that the man was dead.
The incident was one of the hottest topics on Sina Weibo yesterday.
One user asked: “How do chengguan differ from thugs?
“The first thing that comes to mind when chengguan are mentioned is beating people. I can’t remember how often I’ve read about them beating people up.”
In December, four chengguan in the central province of Hunan were jailed for between three and a half and 11 years after a dispute left a roadside watermelon vendor dead.
Officers beat the man to death for operating without a licence, with one chengguan striking his head with a weight.
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