Chinese On the afternoon of October 2, 2024, the Fukuoka District Court pronounced a verdict on a criminal case of "robbery and wounding (changed cause of action: robbery and injury), atrocity, and injury" (Reiwa 5 (わ) No. 705, etc.), and sentenced the defendant Hu Zonghai to six years in prison, of which 360 days of detention in the detention center are counted as the completion of the sentence.
The court pronounced the verdict on the defense of the seven items sued by the victim's defense lawyer: (1) rejecting the not-guilty defense in items 2 to 7 and characterizing him as guilty, and if the defendant is not satisfied with this, he may submit a statement of appeal to the Fukuoka District Court within 14 days from the date of the judgment. (2) The first verdict is not guilty. Summary: Although Hu Zonghai appointed a defense lawyer to make seven not-guilty defenses, six of them were guilty.
During the nearly one-hour trial, the presiding judge made a statement on each of the six incriminating items that had been rejected, taking into account the course of the case and the trial opinions.
"From April to June last year, the victim worked in a company run by the defendant and lived in the defendant's home for a month. Within one month, he suffered from the defendant's robbery of money, bodily injuries, face clamping with pliers and burning the pussy with a lighter, including injuries that required treatment for several months. Among them, the lighter burned the genitals, causing severe burns, internal bleeding, etc., and the injuries were serious. These injuries have caused pain and humiliation to the victims, and some of the victims still have their marks, and the victims are still in mental anguish and have suffered mental losses after seeing them. The defendant who commits multiple crimes within a month shall be severely condemned."
"The defendant threatened the victim in the parking lot to tell the victim's cousin, and the victim begged not to tell the cousin."
"The defendant claimed that on the night he burned the victim's genitals with a lighter, the victim was smiling when taking pictures at the beach, and that it was not intimidated and threatened by the defendant, and the court ruled that the victim's smile was just the defendant's usual habit despite the severe pain of the injured part of the defendant's severe burns caused by the seawater."
"Although the defendant's wife and mother in China swore in court that they would supervise the defendant's life and argued that the defendant had no criminal record, the defendant's mother offered to compensate the victim jointly with the defendant in the hope of sentencing as appropriate. However, the court considered that the gravity of the circumstances did not allow for a reduction in the sentence".
"With regard to the matters in which the verdict was found to be guilty, the court found that it was consistent with the objective injury situation, and there was no doubt about the facts of the threat to the defendant's atrocities."
"With regard to claims in the defense that the victim has a grudge against the defendant because of his suffering, and that the accusation made in order to aggravate the offender's crime may be exaggerated, fictitious, slandered, lying, attached, etc., the court will determine that it is consistent with the objective victim based on the relationship between the case and the case, and the possibility of exclusion or is very low. Conclusion: It is difficult to conclude that the victim made a false report, and if the victim is false, there is a lack of consistency".
"With regard to the possibility of the victim's self-inflicted self-inflicted injury after the victim, the defendant had already experienced pain once, and it was impossible for the defendant to experience the pain of burning himself with a lighter again in order to obtain the defendant's forgiveness, and it was concluded that the defendant's confession was unreasonable and could not be believed."
After investigation and trial, the court found that the first confession of the victim, which was made by the defendant to threaten to rob 900,000 yen, was vague and unnatural, and found him not guilty.
After reading out the verdict and the reasons, the presiding judge asked the defendant not to commit the same crime again in the future.
Major local media in Japan reported on the case.
The Chinese in Japan, especially young students, must protect themselves and avoid similar vicious incidents, and also call on the Chinese in Japan to abide by the law and jointly maintain a peaceful environment, and Chinese citizens who come to Japan for short-term tourism and visits should pay more attention to safety.
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Chinese On July 6, 2023, the police arrested a Chinese living in Fukuoka on suspicion of committing fraud and harm to Chinese students living in his home.
It is reported that Hu Zonghai is suspected of carrying out a series of criminal activities since February this year, and he defrauded international students of money and property by means of imprisonment, abuse, intimidation and deception, which has brought huge losses to the victims. In addition, Hu Zonghai is also accused of serious violations and threats against the victims.
Hu Zonghai, a 40-year-old resident of Shiba-cho, Kuya-gun, Fukuoka Prefecture, claims to be the owner of the company. Since February this year, he has taken in an international student introduced by a friend or relative, because the international student came to meet Hu Zonghai and wanted to experience the Japanese workplace.
After that, Hu Zonghai asked the international student to live at home, but Hu Zonghai forced the international student to give him money by means of intimidation and deception. In the past few months, he has amassed millions of dollars, and the international students kept asking their families for money, which caused their families to be vigilant, and finally let the matter be exposed.
It is understood that Hu Zonghai's intimidation methods were extremely bad, he used a lighter to light a fire, or held a knife and shouted "kill you", etc., and even barbecued the nakedness of foreign students to intimidate them into paying money.
Through in-depth investigation, evidence collection and analysis of clues, the Fukuoka Police Station finally succeeded in locating Hu Zonghai's criminal traces and successfully arrested him on July 6. The police are investigating whether Hu Zonghai has other criminal facts.
This news also caused anger among Japan netizens on the Yahoo website in Japan, leaving a message: It should be sent back to China for trial.
The occurrence of this case once again reminds people to strengthen their own security awareness. Fraud and other forms of criminal activities have brought great harm to society, and Chinese people living and working in Japan should also be alert to risks and protect their own safety.