Recently, a woman in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, broke the news on the Internet that she was sleeping in the early morning when a strange man smashed a wooden door and broke into her residence.
According to the videos and chat records she exposed, she and her boyfriend slept at home in the early morning, and were awakened by the sound of slamming the door, a strange man kicked through the door of her house, and his hand reached through the hole to open the door lock and broke in. It lamented, "If the boyfriend wasn't there, I don't even know what would have happened."
The video showed a man in a black T-shirt breaking through the door. The woman's boyfriend went to the kitchen and subdued the man with a kitchen knife, pushed him to the ground, and waited for the police to arrive. But when the man heard the sound of the police car, he fled while the man was not ready.
The woman said she did not know the man. After he escaped, he did not catch up with her boyfriend because of an injury to his foot. But they saw the strange man's home in the building next door, and he slapped the window to get his father to come forward and solve the problem.
The police then failed to locate the man at the father's and son's residence and asked his father to tell his son to turn himself in and leave. Just as the victim was about to go to the hospital, the man suddenly called in a number of people to beat the murdered woman and her boyfriend, and smashed her mobile phone that was recording a video.
The woman told the media that she was afraid to go home and live now, and was ready to go to the hotel.
On October 15, the Jiangyan Branch of the Taizhou Municipal Public Security Bureau told the media that on October 5, the police had filed a case, but the man involved in the case, Zhang Mou, was at large, and the police were still arresting him. According to the Jiangyan police, it is preliminarily understood that Zhang and the victim are neighbors, and Zhang's family said that Zhang may have broken into the victim's home due to noise reasons.
This matter caused a heated discussion on the Internet, and many netizens discussed the severity of the treatment of "private intrusion into people's houses", and also said, "Can you turn yourself in a criminal case?" ”
Jiupai News contacted the Network Public Opinion Center of the Jiangyan District Public Security Propaganda Department, which said that it had taken note of public opinion on the Internet and would issue a circular to the public in the future according to the latest progress of the matter.
The police station attendant who accepted the case said that the specific measures will be determined according to the severity of the matter.
Zhong Lei, a lawyer at Beijing Yingke Hefei Law Firm, said that for the "illegal invasion of a residence" mentioned by netizens in this case, the criteria for filing the crime are: 1. Illegally and forcibly breaking into another person's residence without the consent of the owner of the residence. 2. Refusal to withdraw after the owner of the dwelling asks him to withdraw. If the owner of the dwelling requests to withdraw, the suspect's refusal to withdraw for a longer period of time will be defined as illegal intrusion into the dwelling, which may not be quite the case. The offence is less practiced in practice and is more difficult to define separately.
The man's act of kicking through the door may be suspected of deliberately damaging property, but it needs to reach a certain amount of money involved. If the knock on the door and the subsequent gathering of people to fight show that one person was slightly injured or two people were slightly injured, the man may face criminal penalties for picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
Wuhan Morning Post reporter Xu Ming