Beijing:
A person who killed 35 individuals in a automotive assault within the southern Chinese language metropolis of Zhuhai final month was sentenced to loss of life on Friday, state media reported.
On November 11, 62-year-old Fan Weiqiu intentionally drove by means of individuals exercising outdoors a sports activities advanced in his small SUV, the worst assault in China since 2014.
He was detained on the scene with self-inflicted knife accidents and fell right into a coma, police mentioned on the time.
His case was publicly tried on Friday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, with the decision reached on the identical day.
The courtroom mentioned the defendant’s motives “had been extraordinarily vile, the character of the crime extraordinarily egregious, the strategies notably merciless, and the results notably extreme, posing important hurt to society”, state media mentioned.
In entrance of a number of the victims’ households, officers and members of the general public, Fan pleaded responsible, it added.
The courtroom discovered Fan had “determined to vent his anger” over “a damaged marriage, private frustrations, and dissatisfaction with the division of property after divorce”, the report mentioned.
China has this yr seen a string of mass casualty incidents — from stabbings to automotive assaults — difficult its popularity for good public safety.
Some analysts have linked the incidents to rising anger and desperation on the nation’s slowing financial system and a way that society is turning into extra stratified.