'Robbers called us Asian dogs'
By Xu Chi |
April 24, 2012, Tuesday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
SYDNEY police say they have detained six people in a case where a Chinese student claimed he and his friend were racially abused, robbed and beaten on a train in the Australian city.
Police said the six - aged from 14 to 18 - allegedly robbed a number of passengers who were traveling on a train between Sydney and Rockdale on Sunday evening.
They were caught by police yesterday.
The action followed responses by China's Consulate-General in Sydney and former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who said online that they were working with police to investigate the case.
The 24-year-old student calling himself "Xuanhao" wrote on his Weibo microblog that he and his friend were on a train heading to the Wolli Creek in the south of the city at about 11:45pm on Sunday when a group of Australians rushed into their compartment, trying to rob them.
"They wanted money so we gave them money. But then a caucasian woman sitting opposite told the robbers she just broken up with her boyfriend who had taken her purse," the student wrote.
"She pointed to us and shouted to the robbers: 'Rob them, they are Chinese, they are rich'."
The student said the robbers then started beating them, breaking his nose and the jaw of his friend and repeatedly calling them "Asian dogs."
"My friend tried to wipe blood off his mouth, but one caucasian woman among them even took out a sanitary napkin from her pants to block his mouth," he wrote.
On a police report he uploaded, the student said the Australians used a broken bottle to hit him over the head. He suffered injuries to his head, face and leg. He also had a cigarette burn on his left cheek.
The report said he was taken away by police after the incident and sent to a nearby hospital for treatment. He was suffering from pain on the left temple and left cheek, the report noted.
The student said the robbers took all their money and their cell phones and his friend was still being treated in hospital.
"It was the second time that I took a train in Sydney. I thought there were policemen in each compartment so I tried to run and screamed loudly for help, but the robbers pulled me back and beat me," he wrote.
"There were no policemen in the train, but there were many other people and even train crews." He said no one had offered help.
Police said the six - aged from 14 to 18 - allegedly robbed a number of passengers who were traveling on a train between Sydney and Rockdale on Sunday evening.
They were caught by police yesterday.
The action followed responses by China's Consulate-General in Sydney and former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd who said online that they were working with police to investigate the case.
The 24-year-old student calling himself "Xuanhao" wrote on his Weibo microblog that he and his friend were on a train heading to the Wolli Creek in the south of the city at about 11:45pm on Sunday when a group of Australians rushed into their compartment, trying to rob them.
"They wanted money so we gave them money. But then a caucasian woman sitting opposite told the robbers she just broken up with her boyfriend who had taken her purse," the student wrote.
"She pointed to us and shouted to the robbers: 'Rob them, they are Chinese, they are rich'."
The student said the robbers then started beating them, breaking his nose and the jaw of his friend and repeatedly calling them "Asian dogs."
"My friend tried to wipe blood off his mouth, but one caucasian woman among them even took out a sanitary napkin from her pants to block his mouth," he wrote.
On a police report he uploaded, the student said the Australians used a broken bottle to hit him over the head. He suffered injuries to his head, face and leg. He also had a cigarette burn on his left cheek.
The report said he was taken away by police after the incident and sent to a nearby hospital for treatment. He was suffering from pain on the left temple and left cheek, the report noted.
The student said the robbers took all their money and their cell phones and his friend was still being treated in hospital.
"It was the second time that I took a train in Sydney. I thought there were policemen in each compartment so I tried to run and screamed loudly for help, but the robbers pulled me back and beat me," he wrote.
"There were no policemen in the train, but there were many other people and even train crews." He said no one had offered help.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
