Ji Mu Sharp commented| Three golden leopards escaped from the Hangzhou Zoo, six people were sentenced, and there will be retribution for concealing and not reporting

Jimu News commentator Wu Shuangjian

According to the Fuyang Court's WeChat public account, on the morning of November 19, 2021, the First Instance Trial of the Fuyang District People's Court of Hangzhou City held a public hearing to hear the case of defendants Zhang Dequan, Ma Jinghua, Zhang Yanfeng, Han Xiang, Ding Zengquan, and Wang Guoquan, and pronounced a verdict in court, sentencing defendant Zhang Dequan and six others to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from two years to one year and two months for the crime of major liability accidents, and pronouncing a suspended sentence.

This is actually the follow-up to the escape of three golden leopards from Hangzhou Wildlife World this year. Zhang Dequan, Ma Jinghua and Zhang Yanfeng are the managers of the zoo, and Han Xiang, Ding Zengquan and Wang Guoquan are the keepers. After the verdict was pronounced, all six pleaded guilty and accepted punishment.

Although this matter is over, it is still sobering.

From the afternoon of April 18 to the morning of April 19, 2020, three sub-adult leopards of the zoo escaped, and the management, fearing that it would affect the operation during the May Day period, chose to conceal and not report its capture, but only captured one. On May 7, after the local people discovered that the golden leopard had formed a social panic, the zoo continued to conceal it, claiming that "no golden leopard was lost.". Although the government and the masses searched for the second leopard on May 8, the third leopard has not seen the leopard alive or dead.

Industry insiders said that the three golden leopards are artificially raised and have no ability to survive in the wild, and the third golden leopard will most likely starve to death naturally.

If you say that after these three golden leopards escape, the zoo called the police for the first time, with the cooperation of the government department and the whole society, the search scope will naturally be much smaller, and things will not be so passive.

Experts said the three leopards were sub-adults, two and a half years old, similar in size to adults, but the gonads were not mature.

That is to say, according to the size of the leopard, it is entirely possible to cause harm to the surrounding citizens, especially children and the infirm. Experts also said that it is not uncommon for leopards to attack humans due to their stress responses due to hunger, nervousness, intimidation and siege.

Fortunately, none of the three golden leopards had any injuries. If it had happened, the punishment of the six of them by law would certainly have been different. But can life stand up to the test of luck?

It can be seen that not only did they not pay attention to the production operation process, but after the leopard escaped, they did not put human life in their eyes, and all they thought about was the operating income during the May Day period. And this, where is the thing that can be hidden!

Six people were sentenced to self-inflicted guilt. Concealing and not reporting, not not reporting, but the time has not yet come.

Opening a zoo to raise beasts of prey cannot tolerate the slightest carelessness. The Times Weekly called the zoo "a long history": in 2016, it was fined for producing and selling goods that did not meet the standards; in 2017, it was fined for illegally occupying land to build a tiger shed in South China; in 2018, it was fined for tax violations; the defendant in China's "first face recognition case" in 2020 was also the zoo, and the consumer won... Although these have nothing to do with animal management, it can be seen that the entire operation of the park has gotten out of control, and the consequences are bound to be hidden dangers.

It is hoped that every zoo can learn from this case, manage animals well, and ensure the safety of citizens.

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