Zhang Ziqiang was the craziest gangster of the 1990s, nicknamed the "Thief King of the Century", kidnapping rich people, robbing cash trucks, and creating terrorist incidents, and his deeds could not be said for three days and three nights.
What makes many people wonder is why he has done so many "big things" but the Hong Kong police have never been able to arrest him.
In fact, Zhang Ziqiang was arrested and imprisoned in Hong Kong for robbing a cash truck. Surprisingly, it didn't take long for him to be acquitted and demanded compensation from the Hong Kong police for 8 million yuan in damages.
After his release from prison, Zhang Ziqiang became more and more arrogant, and from the photos of him celebrating at the entrance of the court, it can be seen that he has no fear of the law.
Of course, if you grow up walking on the side of the road, even if you don't get wet shoes, the law will not easily let go of a person who is so extremely evil. After his release from prison, Zhang Zi's forced style became more and more bold, often going back and forth between the mainland and Hong Kong to commit crimes, and if he wanted to destroy him, he must first make him crazy, and when he committed a crazy crime, he was finally arrested by the mainland police and quickly sentenced to death.
Zhang Ziqiang, who was arrested on the mainland, also thought of taking advantage of the legal characteristics of Hong Kong without the death penalty to escape the disaster. Unfortunately, what he did not expect was that the mainland and Hong Kong police no longer gave him a chance, especially since many of his cases were committed on the mainland, so he was directly tried on the mainland.
After Zhang Ziqiang, the king of the century thieves, was sentenced to death, on the way to the execution site, the mainland police made many special arrangements, not only accompanied by multiple disguised escort vehicles, but also changed their destinations many times on the way.
Looking back at Zhang Ziqiang's life, it is a history of small people embarking on the road of crime. Zhang Ziqiang was born in 1955 in a rural family in Yulin, Guangxi Province, the family conditions are not good, in order to make a living, his parents took Zhang Ziqiang, who had just turned 4, to Hong Kong to make a living.
Zhang Ziqiang's father was in his hometown because of his work and was particularly familiar with the characteristics of herbs. Hong Kong people are very fond of tea drinking, so after arriving in Hong Kong, he used what he knew to open a "herbal tea shop" in Ma Yau Di in Hong Kong to make a living.
MaYou Di was a very remote and desolate place in Hong Kong at that time, and many people from the mainland who came to Hong Kong lived here. In addition, there are also a large number of poor people and criminals living here, which can be described as a mixture of fish and dragons, and gangs are often involved.
After Zhang Father gained a firm foothold in Hong Kong, he also dabbled in the gray area and engaged in the business of betting on horses in the periphery. In this era, society, and family background, Zhang Ziqiang has heard about it since he was a child, believing that there is no future in reading, and when the big guy is majestic and rich, he has become the object of his childhood.
Moreover, because he was smart from childhood, he was very liked by his father's friends on the underworld, so he had a group of little brothers who mixed with him since he was a child.
Over time, the underworld is not the right path after all. In order to be able to walk the right path at home, Zhang's father pinned all his expectations on Zhang Ziqiang, and the trustee arranged for him to be apprenticed in a tailor shop. However, Zhang Father could not have imagined that he had a good intention to let Zhang Ziqiang learn well, but he did not expect to go, but the result was just the opposite.
In the tailor shop, Zhang Ziqiang met many big men on the underworld, among which Hu Jishu was the man who really took Zhang Ziqiang on the road to extinction, and was also the brain figure in Zhang Ziqiang's gang in the future, often giving advice to Zhang Ziqiang.
Zhang Ziqiang, 16 years old, went through a prison because of a fight, but with the help of family and friends, it was not long before he was released, and it was this incident that released the nightmare in Zhang Ziqiang's heart, and his courage became bigger and bigger.
Feeling that his wings had hardened, he ignored the opposition of his family, gathered a group of accomplices, and began to mix on the road. At this time, Zhang Ziqiang was still just a small in Mayoudi, fighting all day, robbing and stealing, and it was not a big deal, and he was a person like that at that time, there were not hundreds but dozens.
What really made Zhang Ziqiang famous on the road was in 1990. He received the news that a batch of Rolex watches will enter Hong Kong, gathered a group of accomplices, successfully robbed the truck transporting Rolex, this time let him harvest a full 25 million, at this time the people on the mainland are still envious of the million yuan household.
This robbery made Zhang Ziqiang rich overnight. After he became rich, his mentality slowly changed, not only did he feel that the money came too easily, he began to spend a lot of money, eating, drinking, and gambling without restraint, but also became more and more bold.
Soon, the money from the crime made Zhang Ziqiang squander, and this time he aimed at the cash truck.
In July 1991, five robbers, including Zhang Ziqiang, each armed with weapons, robbed the cash truck directly, and this time they received a total of 170 million Hong Kong dollars.
Skynet was restored without leaking, and this time because of the huge amount, it also hit the banks and the government in the face. Therefore, the police dispatched a lot of manpower and material resources to investigate, until a bank reported to the police, a woman named Luo Yanfang, after the crime, the bank account has successively increased a large number of deposits.
The police quickly investigated this and found that the deposit number was indeed robbed of money, and through Luo Yanfang, Zhang Ziqiang was found to have a major suspicion.
But in court, Zhang Ziqiang refused to admit the fact that he had robbed. Fortunately, because he did not wear a mask at the time of the crime, one of the escorts involved recognized him, which led the court to sentence Zhang Ziqiang to 18 years in prison on the spot, and his wife Luo Yanfang was released on the spot because of insufficient evidence.
It was Luo Yanfang's constant maneuvering for Zhang Ziqiang outside that allowed him to be released from prison for a long time and received 8 million Hong Kong dollars in compensation.
In 1995, after Luo Yanfang spent a lot of money, Zhang Ziqiang was charged with not being convicted, released on the spot, and outside the courtroom, he raised his arms and expressed arrogance and contempt. Subsequently, under the operation of the husband and wife, the Hong Kong police compensated Zhang Ziqiang with 8 million Hong Kong dollars, which made Zhang Ziqiang more and more invincible.
Zhang Ziqiang, who was in prison, did not have a white experience, and he became acquainted with another gangster in Hong Kong, Ye Jihuan. After the two were released from prison, they jointly did a major event that shocked the whole of Hong Kong, kidnapping Li Ka-shing's son Li Zeju.
On May 23, 1996, Zhang Ziqiang kidnapped Li Zeju, and that night he was covered in explosives to negotiate with Li Ka-shing, and finally Li Ka-shing decided to redeem his son's life with 1 billion and 40 million yuan. Zhang Ziqiang said that 4 was unlucky, returned 2 million, and finally kidnapped Li Zeju to get a ransom of 1.038 billion yuan, and Zhang Ziqiang personally shared 362 million.
In that era when a house was only tens of thousands of yuan, Zhang Ziqiang's value of hundreds of millions of dollars was not satisfied. Soon after, the original team kidnapped the rich man Guo Bingxiang in the same way and received a ransom of 600 million.
In July 1997, after the return of Hong Kong to the motherland, the Hong Kong police and the mainland police worked together to formulate a joint plan to arrest Zhang Ziqiang. In 1998, Guangdong set up a special case team to investigate Zhang Ziqiang's criminal gang.
In January 1998, the special case team members tracked Zhang Ziqiang's gang members and found Zhang Ziqiang's traces at the Gongbei Hotel in Zhuhai, but Zhang Ziqiang was very cunning, and the arrest operation was too hasty and Zhang Ziqiang escaped. The police who got Zhang Ziqiang's traces did not dare to be careless and laid down a net of heaven and earth.
Finally, not long after, at the Waihai Bridge in Jiangmen City, Zhang Ziqiang and his accomplices were arrested.
So far, Zhang Ziqiang, the number one gangster who has committed many crimes in Hong Kong, and his criminal gang have been wiped out. In December 1998, the Guangdong Provincial High People's Court tried Zhang Ziqiang and his people, and Zhang Ziqiang was sentenced to death.
Subsequently, the court verified the identities of several members of the criminal gang and sent them to the execution site for execution. Seeing that there was no room for change in things, a dead end, several people began to point at each other, making people have to sigh, I know why I had today.
Directly behind the test, five death row inmates were put into a bulletproof prison car. Next to this car were several identical prison cars, and there was an iron horse outside.
In order to prevent accidents, this huge escort team went back and forth in several execution sites in Guangzhou, and each execution site stayed for a while before rushing to the next execution site. It was not until noon that Zhang Ziqiang's five men were taken to a hillside around Panyu and executed by firing squad.
The reason why the police attach so much importance to the escort team is that the destination is constantly changing on the way. Mainly because the day when Zhang Ziqiang, the "Thief King of the Century", was executed has long been known. In order to prevent Zhang Ziqiang from having a backhand and avoid accidents, he has been circling around.
With a gunshot, Zhang Ziqiang's 5 people finally paid for their actions.
Still that sentence, if you want to make it perish, you must first make it crazy, Zhang Ziqiang in just a few years, continuous crime, bad influence, and finally paid for his life.