On the evening of April 20, a video reflecting the "theft" of the owner's electric car by the property staff of the community circulated on the Internet.
The video shows that more than 30 "missing" electric vehicles are "hidden" in the underground garage of the community
Netizens posted a video reflecting that on April 20, in Taihe Shangdu Community, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, a group of owners found more than 30 electric vehicles "hidden" in a small space. Among them, a male owner found the electric car he had lost, only to find that the battery of the electric car was "missing" and the tires were missing. Inside the battery compartment are sundries such as helmets and glasses cases.
A group of owners found more than 30 electric vehicles "hidden" in a small space
The battery of the electric car is "missing", and the battery compartment is filled with miscellaneous items such as helmets and glasses cases
Another video shows an area surrounded by blue iron sheets, which should be the iron houses where electric vehicles are parked, and the cracks in the iron sheets have been sealed by the local police.
The cracks in the tin sheet were sealed by the local police
"The property was invited by the owner to serve, but the property itself thinks it is here to enforce the law!" While the video attracted the attention of netizens, some netizens said that it was outrageous and incomprehensible that such a thing happened. In addition, some netizens said that they had also been "recruited" here. Some netizens said that an electric car costs two or three thousand yuan, and these cars should be worth a lot of money.
The owners reflected: the phenomenon of "loss" of electric vehicles in the community has been occurring for a long time
A reporter from Huashang Daily Gale News contacted a property owner in the community where the incident occurred, and he said that after the incident, the local police had intervened to deal with it, whether it was the property staff or not, and he did not know the specific nature of the incident and the follow-up treatment.
The owner said that at least 30 cars were involved, and his car was not among them, but many owners were talking about it on the evening of the 20th. According to what he heard from the owners of the community, the phenomenon of "losing" electric vehicles in the community has been around for a long time, "some say that it has been around for several years, and some say that it has been happening regularly for several months." The owner said that some of the parts of the electric car stored in the tin room were missing and badly damaged, and it was difficult for him to guess what was going on.
Property response: The property has cleaned up the "zombie car" in the community, and the police have filed a case for processing
"It was a problem of cleaning up zombie cars at that time. The reporter contacted the property of Taihe Shangdu Community on this matter, and a staff member introduced that the property had cleaned up the unclaimed zombie cars parked in the community for a long time, and parked them in the underground garage, "This police has filed a case, if you have a problem with the loss of the vehicle, you can go to the police station to consult and understand." ”
The reporter asked why the police would file a case to deal with it since it was a clean-up of zombie cars, and whether it was a theft case as reported on the Internet, the staff member said that because the police had filed a case and they had submitted the relevant materials to the police, it was inconvenient for them to respond too much.
Subsequently, the reporter learned from the local Beicheng police station that the office was indeed handling the matter, "We will report later, and it is inconvenient to disclose the case now."
However, the reporter learned from an owner who has lived in the community for many years that he has not heard of the property to clean up zombie cars, let alone seen the property have a similar advance notice.
Lawyer's statement: The property may bear the corresponding responsibility
"The property management company has established a property service relationship with the owner, and in particular, it has the obligation to protect the safety of the owner's property. In this regard, Zhao Liangshan, a senior partner of Shaanxi Hengda Law Firm and a well-known public interest lawyer, believes that in practice, if the owner's property is lost, the property company will generally be held liable for fault compensation according to the size of the property company's fault, but not all of the liability. For example, when the staff of the property management company failed to perform their due obligations such as off-duty and inadequate monitoring and installation at the time of the incident, the property management company only bears part of the fault liability.
Zhao Liangshan said that in this incident, further investigation is still to be done, and the loss of the owner's electric car is due to the property company's self-theft, or the normal performance of management service duties and cleaning up the zombie car. If the property management company is under the banner of cleaning up zombie cars, and its purpose is to illegally occupy the owner's electric car and hide the owner's electric car in the iron room of the underground garage, then the relevant personnel of the property management company are suspected of theft and can be investigated for legal responsibility in accordance with the law. If the property management company, in order to fulfill the management service obligation, issues a notice to all owners, cleans up the long-term ownerless electric vehicles and temporarily puts them in the tin room, then this practice is not illegal. However, if the relevant personnel of the property management company remove the battery of the owner's electric vehicle and use it for their own use or take possession of it during the storage period, then the relevant personnel of the property management company are suspected of embezzling the property of others.
Zhao Liangshan said that in addition, if the property company does not fulfill the obligation to notify the owner in the community, quietly hides the owner's electric car in the iron house, or hides the owner's electric car in the iron room and then sells the battery of the electric car privately, and takes the proceeds as their own, then the relevant personnel of the property company are also suspected of theft.
Huashang Daily Gale News reporter He Nan Editor Dong Lin
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