The case of group beating of women in a barbecue restaurant in Tangshan, Hebei continued to ferment, and finally waited for the final police report from the Lubei Branch of Tangshan Public Security Bureau - arresting all nine persons involved.
Since the incident, the branch of the Public Security Bureau has issued five consecutive police reports. During this period, Tangshan Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee came to Guangpu to respond to media concerns, and Tangshan Municipal Party Committee Secretary Wu Weidong also organized a meeting overnight.
Although all the people involved in the case have been arrested, in view of the seriousness and adverse impact of the case, there are still two key issues that need to be answered by Tangshan City.
Question 1: The main criminals Chen Mouzhi, Liu Tao and others in the Tangshan violent beating case obviously have the nature of underworld gangs.
According to the self-media public account "Ren Yi" in "Finding the Numerous Cases of Chen Mouzhi and Liu Tao in the Tangshan Assault Case", the main culprit, Chen Mouzhi, was full of bad deeds and covered the criminal record, involving the illegal detention case in December 2015 ( Criminal detention at large), the 2017 traffic hit-and-run case, was listed as a dishonest executor in 2018, involved unjust enrichment in 2019, and was listed as a dishonest executor again in 2020.
The other principal, Liu Tao, was able to go unpunished after committing an illegal detention case in 2015. During this period, he drove without a license and caused a speeding accident, which resulted in eight-car collisions. He was only detained in March 2018 and received a light sentence of two years for pleading guilty in court.
If the self-media is true, the relevant departments of Tangshan City must give the public an explanation on this.
In addition, according to the staff of Tangshan City's crime-related and evil-related reporting center, at least one of the perpetrators involved in the case arrested by the public security organs has a bad criminal record.
Coincidentally, just two days before the violent siege happened, Tangshan had just held a meeting of the city's leading group for the fight against gangsters and evil. The member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, and the leader of the city's leading group for anti-gangsterism and evil came to Guangpu to preside over the meeting. He also made a speech. Lai Guangpu talked about the need to strengthen clue verification, case handling, and black money disposal, strengthen the sweeping of umbrellas and networks, seriously investigate and deal with corruption and "protective umbrellas", strengthen the rectification of key industries, strengthen source governance, and promote supervision. Inspection and accountability.
The work requirements of the normalization of the fight against gangsters and evils should be "held firmly in the hands, on the shoulders, and in the heart", promote the construction of a higher level of "safe Tangshan", and be a good political "moat" in the capital.
After the violent incident, Wu Weidong, Secretary of the Tangshan Municipal Party Committee, also held a meeting that night, and he also specifically talked about the need to completely eradicate the underworld forces, a social cancer that the people deeply hate, and the vicious incidents of picking quarrels, provoking trouble and violent beatings in barbecue restaurants must be taken from the public. Strictly and quickly punished according to the law, and at the same time, we must draw inferences from one case to another in the city to carry out a special fight against gangsterism and evil to "look back".
This vicious incident not only seriously broke the social order and moral bottom line, but also flouted the law and seriously impacted people's sense of security.
The relevant departments in Tangshan not only undertake the responsibilities of arresting suspects and investigating criminal gangs according to law, but also must answer why Chen Mouzhi has become a slippery fish under the big net of sweeping gangsters and eradicating evil, and completely eradicate the forces behind the rampant gangs. , so as to minimize the anger and fear behind the turbulent public opinion.
Just on June 11, a cake shop owner reported a real-name triad group composed of released prisoners. The shop owner said in the video that he had been extorted by the triad, and the cake shop was closed because of this. He hoped to ask the whole society for help. .
From this point of view, it is imminent to "look back" in Tangshan's special fight against gangsterism and evil.
On the evening of the 11th, the Hebei Provincial Public Security Department announced that the case was designated by the Guangyang Branch of the Langfang Public Security Bureau for investigation and handling.
Question 2: Surrounding women, apologizing for farming, locking the door with iron wires, three hot searches a month in Tangshan, what's wrong with the local governance system and governance capacity?
What about the modernization of governance?
After the violent incident, the official media of the party newspapers spoke out one after another, condemning the violence, and hoped that the relevant departments would give an explanation to the victims and the public as soon as possible.
However, among the media, the party newspaper Guangming Daily headlined "Besieging Women, Apologizing for Farming, Locking the Door with Wire: Why is Tangshan Hot Searched Three Times a Month?"
' comments were particularly noteworthy.
The commentary wrote that the nature of the case is so bad, it is so shocking in the context of more than 40 years of reform and opening up, and it is even more incredible in the context of eradicating evil.
Because of provoking the double bottom line of social rule of law and morality, this case has produced a transmission effect, making all the people in front of the screen feel a kind of intense unease.
People's anger and confusion are very reasonable: Isn't Tangshan part of a society ruled by law? Why is the word "law" not deterrent?
Does Tangshan have no effective social governance?
Why did "a customer call the police at that time, and the police have already intervened to deal with it", and it took more than ten hours for the police to arrest the main suspect?
You must know that this is under the normalized epidemic prevention and control, and the time of more than ten hours has far exceeded the time to find and lock the close contact.
The occurrence of violent and vicious incidents pushed Tangshan to the forefront of public opinion.
(Xinhua News Agency)
In addition, the current review also mentioned two other hot searches in Tangshan within a month: in early May, an old farmer in Tangshan rushed to work in the field during the epidemic prevention and control period, and was seen and criticized by local inspectors.
As a result, the old farmer used a loudspeaker to criticize and "walk through the streets" to the entire village.
"Tangshan hard-core epidemic prevention is not allowed to go down to the ground" and then made a hot search with a dark humorous narrative; at the end of April, in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, Tangshan Qian'an implemented "hard isolation" measures, requiring some residents to hand over their keys to lock their doors. , tied the doors of some residential buildings with wire.
This "measure" not only "shocked" the public, but even exceeded the public's imagination.
Don't the local administrative departments see "people"? Don't they know that the consequences of a fire in such a situation would be unimaginable?
Is there no "law" in the eyes of local administrative departments?
Don't you know that this amounts to deprivation of property and violation of civil rights?
At the end of the article, the commentary concluded, “Respecting the law and obeying the law are two sides of the same coin. Fair justice, strict law enforcement, and law-abiding by the whole people are two sides of the same coin. Places that can lock doors with iron wires and ban citizens can be so absurd that farmers are not allowed to farm. It can be imagined what kind of legal environment, what kind of legal governance level, and what kind of social and legal awareness there will be in the locality.”
"The beating of women, apology for farming, and locking the door with iron wire, these three social incidents that occurred in Tangshan within more than a month are all failures of social governance, and they all metaphorize the loss of the prestige of the "law" in a region. An intriguing logical chain has been formed between them. The slow construction of the rule of law is difficult, and the destruction of the rule of law is easy and fast, which should serve as a wake-up call to more law enforcement, judicial, and public policy makers under the epidemic.”
It can be said that the "Guangming Daily" commented at the time and pointed out the essence behind the malignant incident through the phenomenon, and the "question of governance" in it is also something Tangshan must face and answer.
Since August 2021, the Central Political and Legal Committee has taken the lead in promoting the pilot work of modernizing social governance in the city. On June 7, Chen Yixin, Secretary-General of the Political and Legal Committee, presided over the eighth work exchange meeting.
According to the overall deployment, 2022 is the year of acceptance. What kind of transcripts will the pilot cities hand over? The people's sense of happiness, security, and gain are the most direct and real acceptance criteria.
Therefore, the "question of governance" that Guangming Daily threw to Tangshan, not only Tangshan needs to answer, but also other cities outside Tangshan need to draw inferences from one case, so as to give the people a sense of security and gradually promote the modernization of China's social governance.
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