Suspect in Japanese boy’s stabbing is jobless with criminal record, Chinese media says
Information about the sensitive case is tightly controlled by Chinese police, media and internet censors
The suspect, a 44-year-old man surnamed Zhong, was reportedly detained by Dongguan police in 2015 for damaging public telecommunications facilities and released on bail, the state-owned Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported on Friday.
The report said that in 2019, he was put in administrative detention – a maximum of 15 days – by Shenzhen police for “fabricating facts to disrupt public order”.
Zhong confessed to attacking the boy on Wednesday, the Shenzhen outlet said, citing police.
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The police have called this week’s case “isolated”, saying the alleged attacker had no accomplices. The case was being investigated, authorities said.
In an incident in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, in June in which a Chinese woman was killed trying to stop a man attacking a Japanese mother and child with a knife, police only described the attacker as a 52-year-old unemployed man surnamed Zhou.
