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Hong Kong Maoist gangster attacks quit CCP center

By Lin Xiuyi of the SOH Radio Network

Arson and sabotage, involving a gangster related to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), took place in a busy district of Hong Kong on June 29th, targeting a Quit the CCP service center.

A mainland Chinese man, self-claimed to have the name of Mao Jiedong (one Chinese character away from former Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong) and a Maoist follower, set fire to an overpass in Waichai, a busy district of Hong Kong. He attempted to burn the flags and posters of the service centre and then continued to attack staff. The man was later arrested by police.

According to eyewitnesses, at about 3:30 pm on June 29, a middle aged, mainland Chinese man, suddenly approached the service center, which was set up on the overpass in front of the government Immigration building, and started making trouble. Chen Mintai, a volunteer at the service center, saw that as soon as the man appeared, seven to eight local media reporters also arrived. It was later discovered the media had been notified of the incident beforehand, that the man would burn himself, and that he had invited the media to take pictures.

The attacker first threatened the volunteers, demanding them to take down the banners and posters that were hanging on the guardrails of the overpass. He then sprayed flammable liquid onto the banners and posters, and set them on fire.

Volunteers at the service center called the police. Firefighters then came to scene and extinguished the fire. The man was arrested by police on charges of arson, and he was taken back to the precinct for further questioning.

It was later confirmed that the man’s real name is Shan Jieyao. He is infamous among Chinese netizens for his outrageous speech on the internet, but how and why he was recruited to cause this trouble in Hong Kong is still unknown.

By Lin Xiuyi of the SOH Radio Network.