Tribute to the victims of a car-ramming attack, in front of a sports center, in Zhuhai, in Guangdong province, China, November 13, 2024. TINGSHU WANG / REUTERS Security has been reinforced in front of schools, and the government is increasing calls for vigilance from local authorities after a series of attacks which distress China. At least ten attacks, with knives and often targeting young students leaving school, or vehicles driving into crowds, have taken place since the start of the year, including three between Monday 11 and Tuesday 19 November. Schools were already calling on security agents, but up to four could be seen at the school gates on Tuesday, November 26 in the morning, with shields and sticks to repel the potential attacker, and even in one case one car-ram barrier. The secretary of the very powerful Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party, Chen Wenqing, former head of intelligence and highest ranking in the security apparatus under President Xi Jinping, gathered his subordinates on Friday November 22. “We must strengthen the management of key places and major events, patrol and control society, and strictly prevent any public security incidents,” he warned. The Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court, the party secretaries at the level of provinces such as Hunan, all, each in turn, sounded the mobilization. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers In China, mass killings are damaging its image as a “safe” country Read later The country usually sees the safety of its streets as proof of the cohesion of Chinese society, and the propaganda highlights often highlights the frequency of assault rifle attacks in American colleges, which illustrates, according to her, the flaws of the world’s leading power. But recent attacks bring both concern and doubt. The silence of the authorities On June 11, in Jilin, in the far northeast, a 55-year-old man stabbed in a park four American teachers from a university in Iowa who had come as part of an education program. exchange and a Chinese tourist who tried to protect them. It took twenty-four hours for the authorities to report it, and the images quickly disappeared from social networks. The police had explained to the victims that the man was unemployed and would have acted because one of them had pushed him. One of the victims, back in the United States, David Zabner, explains that he knows nothing more today about the reasons for the attack. Read also | Four American teachers attacked with knives in China, a suspect arrested Read later A few days later, on June 24, in Suzhou (east), 1,500 kilometers away, a Japanese schoolboy, his mother and an employee of his school bus were in turn stabbed. On September 18, another Japanese child was killed with a knife in Shenzhen (southeast). On the 30th of the same month, a 37-year-old man killed three people and injured fifteen others in a Walmart supermarket in Shanghai – the authorities explained that he had financial problems. You have 49.39% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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Publish date : 2024-11-26 19:56:50
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