June 12, 2001 00:47
Tribune Life Weekly reported on June 11: Nanchong's big case was solved on April 26, and Wang, director of publicity at Nanchong Municipal Public Security Bureau, said the series of robberies, rapes and killings is also the biggest one in Nanchong this year: four men and two women were killed, and three schoolgirls were gang-raped. were gang-raped. But before solving the case on this all the public **** information from the Internet, and with a shocking five words: "Nanchong massacre", the number of victims also jumped: 29, 100, up to 600 people.
The first genesis of the rumors was also a case in which Li, the chairman of the Nanchong Women's Federation, heard accounts at the time that two students from the Sichuan North Medical College were killed in late April while falling in love in Nanchong's Xishan scenic area. The female student was also raped before her death. Half a month later, two similar cases quickly set off tensions. at about 12 p.m. on May 12, the perpetrators saw a man and a woman falling in love by the Jialing River in the remote village of Nanmenba, and four people went up to them to rob them. Prior to May 5, they have robbed a couple in Xishan. But even more heinous is, after robbing the money they did not stop, the young woman was gang-raped, several people were brutally killed. Even two secondary school students returning home from swimming on the 12th day were killed because they witnessed them committing the crime." The heads of the four of them were found one after another not far along the Jialing River two days later, and all of them had some degree of decomposition," Director Wang said.
The two cases are "5.16" and "5.18".
When describing the cases, Director Wang said, "The two big cases that happened in mid-May were not related to the one that happened at the end of April. But it was noted that the perpetrators were mainly targeting people who were "playing friends" -- that is, falling in love. The serial nature of the crimes, the brutality of the methods, and the fact that the victims included students, provided the basis for the rumors to attract attention.
On May 22, a chat room on the Internet was heavily reposted. One of them claimed to be Nanchong Teacher's College, the screen name of "worm" people said, "they said they want to blow up two do (seat) Nanchong school, a Nanchong high school, one is our school, last night we smelled the smell of burning", "Chuanbei Medical College died 35, our school died 4, this is yesterday's news, and was taken away from the body of the body is not counted," "the triad retaliation, they threatened to kill 600 students". They threatened to kill 600 students". The reason for the incident was explained as "triad retaliation, the Nanchong government shot six of their people last month, so they threatened to kill 600 students".
While the Internet was buzzing, Nanchong city was also awash with the topic. Li, chairwoman of the city's Women's Federation, said she found that it has also become a public **** car people **** the same topic, but not as evil as the Internet, "generally said to have killed 20 or 30, the legend is to kill 100 students." Chairman Li believes that rumors have been able to gain a foothold there is another reason: in Nanchong, the extremely powerful Luo Xiaolin criminal gang had just been knocked out at that time. Luo Xiaolin's brutality had left a heavy shadow in the minds of Nanchong's citizens - the media reported that Luo had broken the legs of his subordinate Zhao Chunlin and cut off Zhao's thumbs, forcing him to swallow them. Zhao was then kicked into a ditch and drowned.
The case and the speculation attached to it prompted the case to directly affect the mentality and lives of local citizens. Liang Ying, a graduate of the Chinese language department at Nanchong Teachers College, told an interesting story: Because there were so many rumors during that time, all the activities organized at the school were extremely popular. For example, the Department of Physical Education organized a competition, many girls who never cared about sports also went to make fun, but also more or less helplessly said "now can not go out of school, it can only be used to enrich the spare time life. However, the movie theater in the school, which had been a hot spot, was suddenly not frequented by many people, because there was a saying that "criminals would plant time bombs in the movie theater".
The effect of the rumors peaked around May 20, Liang Ying said. A small blackboard in the mailroom of Nanchong Teachers' College warned students to be cautious when going out. There were also police cars patrolling outside the school gates. Teachers held many class meetings to emphasize that the situation was serious and that people in the dormitories should always travel together when going out of school. Even at the end of the school's cultural evening, the head of the academic department also made a special emphasis. But there will always be times when you have to go out, and that's when students feel especially nervous, because there are also rumors that the perpetrators were dragged into their cars and taken away from the students as they crossed the street.
Some of the more ludicrous stuff came up too. Liang Ying heard that school teachers were worried about problems with college students who fell in love, and that one class had a special registration for couples, "I don't know if it's true or just another rumor," Liang Ying said.
The case came to the attention of the police on the afternoon of May 16, when someone found the three men and one woman killed in the reeds along the Jialing River. Director Wang said that by the 26th to solve the case, the rate of activity of the police is relatively large. They set up three special task force, respectively, to detect "5?4" case "5?16" case and "5?18" case. The first breakthrough was the "5?16" task force, several cases were solved at the same time.
The police's commitment was felt by the public. Deng Ling, who works for a television station, said the police were everywhere. In several major locations, public security officers had to question passing cabs, "asking them if they had pulled passengers with large pockets or carrying large suitcases on the days of the crime," and cabs with no problems were said to have been tagged with numbered markings indicating that they had been inspected. Director Wang said the police were under great pressure, with more than 600 police officers deployed on a large-scale investigation within the city's three districts.
Some corresponding moves on the part of the government have also been made. Nanchong City, some of the Internet cafes, electronic amusement halls and other places of business originally open all night were required to 11:00 pm, 2:00 pm on the closure of business. However, business on the streets of Nanchong was generally sluggish for some time. Nanchong City Women's Federation of President Li thinks he is not the kind of people who easily believe rumors. But relatively also suffered some impact. When her daughter went out to do business at night, she didn't forget to tell her not to go to the back of the quiet place and to close the stall early," she said.
Deng Ling said Nanchong people have a habit of going out to drink beer with friends and family at night, and the weather in Nanchong was so hot in those days that going out to drink beer was a very pleasant thing to do. But such a habit, which has almost become a way of life for the locals, was nowhere to be seen on those days, let alone singing in karaoke halls.
There is an interesting story about the crime that has to do with this. Deng Ling heard a friend say, then there are "plainclothes" drinking beer, heard a few drinkers on the next table said: "I don't think this gang of police can do, they stink a lot, we do things they can't get", and then spoke of a few people were brought into the police station, a trial on the confessed.
While Nanchong is tense, the country is also tense. After word of mouth, a bigger role should be attributed to the role of the Internet in spreading the word that the case is no longer local news in Nanchong. Liang Ying told a detail. When she initially talked to her parents on the phone, she told them about the rumors that had been spreading in Nanchong about the murder of a student." At that time, the family especially not take seriously, do not believe, but also advised me to focus on books. But a few days later, his parents called anxiously, saying they had also heard about the incident, "but when it came to my parents urged me to be careful, I thought it was no big deal," Liang Ying said.
The case was solved, and all rumors in Nanchong came to a screeching halt. the impact of the three farmers and a hobo on the city culminated in a public arrest and parade dedicated to them -- described by the media as a day of at least 100,000 arrests that saw Nanchong emptying alleys like it hadn't seen in years. some of the people who came to Nanchong for the arrests were from the city of Nanchong, which had not seen any arrests in years, and the city of Nanchong had not yet seen a parade of people. Nanchong people who lived through that extraordinary period felt it was a ridiculous experience when interviewed.
The simplicity and rawness of the case, on the contrary, made all the speculation and the resulting panic and anger light. But few bothered to pursue the fact that what brought about the series of changes were in fact just rumors, and fewer would feel deceived and stigmatized. This page of Nanchong City has been turned. Selected by:Juanzi Source:Sanlian Life Weekly By:Jin Yan