△ Screenshot of the scene video in front of the court: "Petitioners" held up signs to make trouble.
Recently, the police in Weifang, Shandong Province, cracked a case of organizing and planning petitioners to gather with signs and trying to interfere with court trials, and the criminal suspects Zhai Yanmin, Liu Jianjun, and others were criminally detained by the public security organs according to law on suspicion of gathering a crowd to disturb social order. Inexplicably, some of these suspects were unaware of the cases before the court and did not know the families of the defendants, so why did they run to the front of the court to make trouble?
Video recording of the scene in front of the court "petitioners" holding up signs at the scene to make trouble
On June 15, in front of the Weifang Intermediate People's Court, a tall, thin man with long hair and a long beard was directing more than a dozen people to line up, hold up slogans, pull up banners, and shout slogans.
△ Video: Shandong police cracked the case of organizing and planning petitioners to raise signs and provoke trouble.
It was Monday morning and morning rush hour, and the unusual behavior of this group of people attracted a large number of people to watch, resulting in a blockage of the traffic artery in front of the court, seriously disrupting the surrounding order and the normal work of the court. Soon there were people calling the police, and the public security police then rushed to the scene to deal with it, but in the face of the patient persuasion of the police, some of the personnel involved in holding up signs and shouting slogans refused to cooperate and were very arrogant. After repeated attempts to stop the dissuasion ineffective, the police forcibly took a number of people suspected of gathering crowds to cause trouble from the scene in accordance with the law.
The "agent" behind the plot was actually entrusted by a lawyer
After interrogation, the police learned that these people were summoned by a Beijing man named Zhai Yanmin to Weifang, and under the leadership of Beijing lawyer Liu Jianjun, they rushed to the court early in the morning of the 15th and organized the implementation of this activity. According to the people themselves, they did this in order to show solidarity with the defendants in a case that the court was about to decide in the second instance, but when the police asked about the names of the defendants and the relevant facts of the case, these people did not know what to do.
△ Suspect Zhai Yanmin.
With the deepening of the investigation by the people's police, an organization that specially gathered petitioners, under the banner of rights protection, looked around at hot incidents, gathered crowds to disrupt social order to exert pressure on the government or judicial departments, and profited from this, and there was no shortage of lawyers involved in the case.
Zhai Yanmin, the main driving force behind organizing petitioners to make trouble in Weifang, was arrested by the police on June 15, as a remote control commander in Beijing. According to Zhai Yanmin's account, he was entrusted by Liu Jianjun, a lawyer in Beijing, and Zhang Luo petitioned the people to go to Weifang to make trouble. He said, "Because Liu Jianjun knows me well, he knows that I have a lot of petitioners under me who can organize them." Zhai Yanmin said that at that time, he also found a friend named Liu Xing to help.
Under the command and planning of Zhai Yanmin and the organization led by Liu Xing, on June 14, 15 petitioners arrived in Weifang one after another with signs prepared in advance, Liu Jianjun arranged accommodation for them, invited them to eat, and took out the banners prepared by the petitioners in advance and put them together.
How is a professional "petitioning broker" refined?
The police investigation found that Zhai Yanmin, 54 years old this year, is not a petitioner and currently has no legitimate occupation. Since 2002, he has founded investigation companies, consulting companies and medical device companies, all of which have had their business licenses revoked for various reasons. He did not do well in business, but he quickly found a sense of accomplishment in his contact with the petitioners.
Zhai Yanmin planned to organize petitioners to go all over the country to watch hot events or cases to be tried, and over time he left the impression of "enthusiastic public affairs", and a large number of petitioners gradually gathered around him. Zhai Yanmin also began to accept some so-called "rights defense lawyers" and the parties to the case of the relationship with the entrustment and funding, organized petitioners to all parts of the country to "solidarity" with various events or cases, he became the "agent" of this group, every time the collective out of the "solidarity", in their eyes is like taking a single job, before going to Weifang, Zhai Yanmin wrote in the WeChat group "Qing'an detained warriors, to contact you a small job, at the needs of the parties to Weifang to watch an unjust case, Accommodation and food expenses are provided and there is compensation for lost time, the time is one and a half days, and participants are willing to register immediately".
△ Screenshot of Zhai Yanmin's WeChat group.
For each job, the participating petitioners receive travel expenses ranging from a few hundred yuan to thousands of yuan and lost work expenses. In the Weifang incident, he admitted that "according to the unspoken rules, if things are done, Liu Jianjun will give me money in return, and if the petitioners are detained, Liu Jianjun will coordinate with the families of the parties to pay part of the money as a condolence payment."
Since 2014 alone, Zhai Yanmin has directly organized and directed petitioners from all over the world to stir up trouble in the name of "solidarity", and 14 of the 15 people who went to Weifang this time have just returned from the scene of the Qing'an railway station shooting incident with a sign to stir up trouble. They also plan to go south to Guangzhou as soon as they complete the task of "solidarity" with Weifang to "express solidarity" with another so-called "unjust case."
The division of labor between "taking orders" and "sending jobs" in professional petitions is clear
The police handling the case said that they have a specific organizational division of labor, the organizers must first create some signs and banners in some places, and before going, they must first premeditate who will hold up which sign, who will pull the banner, who will do what, and who will be responsible for taking pictures. After taking a picture, look at what negative effects this situation can cause, and upload it to the Internet in the form of a photo.
In addition to being disseminated in some well-known forums in China, some of the photos taken were also posted on overseas websites such as Boxun Network, the purpose of which is to create international influence and exert pressure on the government and judicial departments of the place where the incident occurred, thereby interfering with the handling of the incident or the court's judgment. A group of petitioners with Zhai Yanmin as the link and command, individual "rights defense lawyers" and related parties paying for them, and relatively fixed personnel have already formed between these groups of petitioners, with a clear division of labor and a well-organized criminal gang.
He organized "solidarity" with the Qing'an incident Zhai Yanmin: There is no remorse
On May 2 this year, after the shooting at the Qing'an railway station in Heilongjiang, within a few days Zhai Yanmin called Wu Gan (the screen name "Super Vulgar Butcher") to ask if he wanted to find someone to go to Qing'an to express support, and Wu Gan said that he did not need it for the time being, and that he needed a lawyer to hype up the Qing'an incident before a large number of petitioners were needed to hype and support. So Zhai Yanmin called to organize the petitioners to go to Qing'an, and he told others that "there is no political attention to the matter of Qing'an, and it is necessary to heat up the hype with the petitioners as the mainstay", and then he asked Sun Mousheng, Li Mouli and others to go to Qing'an as the vanguard to understand the situation.
After Sun Mousheng and others were detained by the police for holding up a sign to hype, he asked Liu Xing to organize several petitioners to go to Qing'an, and specifically advised them to "not let the local public security organs know that we have a coordination group for the Qing'an incident, and do not let the government know that we are organized." Because Zhai Yanmin also knew in his heart that this so-called "solidarity" of accepting financial support from others was not legal.
In the process of being interrogated by the police, Zhai Yanmin also admitted that his behavior endangered social order, and it was even more inappropriate to reflect on his actions in the Qing'an incident.
Suspect Zhai Yanmin: "I do have a weak sense of law, I regret it very much, for the Qing'an incident I think the government has done a serious investigation, released the truth and a complete video, but there are always such a small number of people with ulterior motives and want to muddy things ... Disturbing social order should be severely punished. ”
Lawyer involved: Regret should not interfere with the trial in violation of the law
In this case cracked by the police, Zhai Yanmin and the defendant's family members originally did not know each other, and it was lawyer Liu Jianjun who threaded the needle between them, so why did Liu Jianjun, who should have known the law and understood the law and safeguarded the dignity of the law, think of finding petitioners to put pressure on the court?
Liu Jianjun is a lawyer at Beijing Kangpu Law Firm, born in Weifang, Shandong Province. According to Liu Jianjun, he was not an agent in the embezzlement case that the Weifang Intermediate People's Court was about to adjudicate, and he was entrusted by his junior high school classmates to intervene.
In order to facilitate Liu Jianjun's work, the defendant's family gave Liu Jianjun 3,000 yuan in carriage and horse fees, and then paid 70,000 yuan for activities. After getting the money, Liu Jianjun quickly contacted a group of experts, scholars and media reporters in Beijing, held a case seminar with the defendant's family, and published the content of the meeting on the Internet to "show solidarity" with the defendant. From this 70,000 yuan, Liu Jianjun divided 14,000 yuan.
Criminal suspect Liu Jianjun: "I introduced Lao Zhai to the family of this defendant. Lao Zhai said that arranging some more enthusiastic petitioners or volunteers to petition and expand his influence is to make this case pay attention to the leadership. ”
△ Criminal suspect Liu Jianjun.
In the face of interrogation by the police, Liu Jianjun said in his confession, "As a legal worker, I should have defended the dignity of the law and maintained social and public order. However, as a legal worker, I am now using illegal means to express my demands, and also guiding others to exert pressure on the government in an illegal way for the sake of appeals, all of which violate national laws and regulations, disrupt social and public order, and cause a very bad impact on society. I regret it."
CCTV Commentary: A society governed by the rule of law should not bow to the visit
Mr. Wang Jian, a press observer, said: "This unacceptable act of professional visitation is a cloak of justice and a naked blasphemy against the dignity of the law. It is incomprehensible that the "petitioners" have sold their souls and consciences for money, and what is even more incomprehensible is that lawyers have also participated in it, deviating from the belief in the law and smearing judicial justice. The soil of professional visits also exists in some abnormal phenomena in our society, such as our anger is too cheap, compassion on the Internet is rampant, encounter things indiscriminately, first anger, first solidarity, such behavior gives professional visits and more space. ”
△ News observer Wang Jian.
In response to professional visits, Mr. Wang Jian said that a just rule of law society should not bow to the visits, but should constantly promote the construction of a rule of law society, so that every citizen has a channel for legitimate appeals, through the facts as the basis, the law as the criterion of the trial to get more judicial justice, so that people's faith in the legal system continues to rise, so that professional visits will be eradicated. The act of professional visitation should be dealt with even more severely. The media and the public should also mature, and when similar things happen, they should believe in proper legal channels, believe in legitimate authoritative releases, and should not be biased and biased, preconceived, and give the soil for the growth of professional visits.
Source/CCTV News
Producer/Yang Jihong Editor-in-Chief/Jiang Ping
Editor/Yongtao Jiang
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