One evening in July 2016, the police station received a strange police situation.
A middle-aged man suddenly in a small square of pedestrians, with the fruit knife carried, stabbed a passerby, the injured then fell to the ground. The middle-aged man did not escape, but sat next to the victim, the fruit knife stuck in the flower bed behind him.
The police arrived at the scene, the middle-aged man did not do any resistance, followed by the police obediently into the police car, the injured were then arrived in the 120 ambulance to the hospital.
The middle-aged man called Xie Jiang, then 33 years old, local people, no legitimate occupation. The injured man is called Liu De, and Xie Jiang is similar in age.
“Xie Jiang he has mental illness, this is the previous identification, according to the law, he does not have to bear any responsibility.” Subsequently, a group of people rushed to the police station, one of them claimed to be Xie Jiang’s stepfather, showed us Xie Jiang’s diagnostic materials.
The victim is lying in the hospital life and death, the suspect’s family on the first thought to shirk responsibility, colleagues could not help but dislike him a: “Which law tells you that the mentally ill are not legally responsible?”
Xie Jiang stepfather then stretched his phone to us, saying that this is what the Internet says.
I did not bother to look at his phone, only to tell him: Xie Jiang is criminally responsible, to be judged by judicial evaluation, in addition, whether he is criminally responsible, civil liability can not escape, “you rush to send people to the hospital, the victim to pay the medical bill, which will be beneficial to his future sentencing.
Xie Jiang stepfather froze for a moment and asked me what is civil liability. I said is to pay money: “stabbing people like this, medical expenses and compensation afterwards are not a small amount, you hurry to raise money.”
He also wanted to pull me to say something, but colleagues in the office something to shout at me, I waved his hand and said, “You go ahead and find a lawyer for Xie Jiang, later use.”
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According to the records on the police integrated platform, Xie Jiang was indeed a mental patient, but he looked normal as he sat in the interrogation chair at the police station. He himself said, “That psychiatric identification is from before,” and now he doesn’t have any mental problems.
In the past, most of our encounters are suspects who insist they are mentally ill and try to escape the law, but we have never encountered such an example of a person who clearly has a psychiatric evaluation and says he is not ill.
Xie Jiang told me that his motive for committing the crime was simple: Liu De was his high school classmate who had bullied him when he was studying.
I asked him, “What happened in high school you still hold a grudge against people now?”
Xie Jiang nodded and said he couldn’t find Liu De before, “otherwise he would have taken revenge.
I asked Xie Jiang stabbed each other a few times, he did not even think about blurting out: “three knives!”
From his face, I can not see the usual suspects will have fear, nervousness and anxiety, said the word “three knives”, but also showed a trace of excitement.
I began to doubt Xie Jiang’s current mental state, asked the leadership, the leadership suggested that I talk to him first, to determine the mental state is normal before continuing to make statements. So I left the computer desk, moved a chair to sit next to Xie Jiang, let him speak in detail about “revenge for what”.
According to Xie Jiang, it happened in 1999. That year Xie Jiang 16 years old, Liu De 17 years old, the same in a high school in the city in the second year of high school.
Xie Jiang said, he was just an ordinary student in the science class, and Liu De’s life originally had little intersection – Liu De is the school’s “celebrity”, the sophomore “bearer” – at that time, each grade in high school has a “bearer”, and want to become a “bearer”, must “fight hard, more brothers, but also not afraid of trouble”.
Liu De fully meets these three conditions.
In the first year of high school, he originally attended a school in the provincial capital, because in the classroom and the teacher beat each other was expelled, the family found relations to transfer him to this high school.
Even the teacher dared to fight, classmates naturally do not care. Not long after the transfer, Liu De’s side gathered several students from this school, all of whom are brave and fierce characters. Not only that, his “social circle” outside of school is also very wide, his cousin is one of the city’s famous gangsters, often come to school to find him, and from time to time will bring people to help him “clean up” some dare to challenge his “authority “authority” of his classmates.
As for “not afraid of trouble”, Liu De is true to his name, just transferred to the school, he was dealt with for fighting in the school, it is said that the deputy director of the political education department punched him in the office, he immediately screamed at the deputy director, said to “do” the deputy director. Three days later, at the end of the flag-raising ceremony, the stern deputy director of the political education department read out his “examination” in front of the whole school, criticizing himself for “inappropriate education methods and corporal punishment of students” and admitting his fault to Liu De in public – after that day, the deputy director of the political education department read out his “examination” in front of the whole school. -After that day, the deputy director of the political education department resigned.
Students and teachers began to spread rumors that Liu De’s father was a provincial official and that other relatives in the family were leaders in the city. Although the school later came out to dispel the rumors, saying that the resignation of the deputy director of political education was purely for personal reasons, but since then, even though Liu De still flaunted his power in the school, there were few news about him being disciplined.
At that time, Xie Jiang often saw Liu De and a group of “brothers” “meeting” at the kiosk in front of the school after school, and sometimes heard that a certain student was “cleaned up” after school because he had offended Liu De – the so-called “offense” might just be a “lack of respect” look when meeting Liu De, or an unwarranted “bad word” that reached the ears of Liu De’s group.
Xie Jiang’s family is ordinary, his biological father died early, his mother works as a saleswoman in a shopping mall, and his stepfather drives a cab. Because his home is far from school, he will buy food every day at noon in the off-campus snack street, and sometimes meet with Liu De’s group in this “party”. Xie Jiang said, he has been very careful, afraid of which action or look by Liu De gang misunderstanding, to bring themselves an unwarranted disaster.
Unfortunately, Xie Jiang still messed with Liu De.
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Xie Jiang remembers clearly that one day in March 1999, he went to the snack street to buy lunch as usual. After leaving the school building, Xie Jiang met a school leader. The leader used to be Xie Jiang’s chemistry teacher, so the two walked together for a while, and the leader asked Xie Jiang a few questions about his studies.
After leaving the school gate, the two separated. The two of them are the same as the other two. This was an uneventful thing, and at that time Xie Jiang was thinking about what he was going to buy for lunch, and didn’t care about the school leader’s actions afterwards.
However, after the lunch break, Xie Jiang felt something strange: first, students kept coming to the door of their classroom to look around, and finally put a vicious gaze on him; then he went to the toilet outside the school building, and was pushed for no reason.
Finally, in the afternoon before class, Xie Jiang’s table whispered to him, “You’ve messed with the ‘bearer’, hurry up and do something about it!”
Xie Jiang was taken aback, he could not figure out where he had messed with Liu De, and begged his desk to help him inquire about it. He said that he knew that you had reported Liu De to the school leaders at noon, and Liu De had given the word that he would “waste” you.
The puzzled Xie Jiang inquired around for a long time before he found out the reason why Liu De wanted to “waste” him – at noon that day, Liu De had invited his cousin to go to the vocational school next door to “clean up “The two vans were filled with students who had clashed with him in the Internet cafe. The two vans were filled with social workers called by his cousin and a few of Liu De’s “minions”. The group was waiting for someone in the car while discussing how to do it to the vocational school students, but unexpectedly, the school leaders suddenly appeared, not long, even the police came, took them all to the police station.
The police found that Liu De’s cousin called “social people” in a fugitive, immediately put him in prison, Liu De’s cousin was also left to “assist in the investigation”, the others because the behavior is not enough to break the law for the time being, was educated and released from the police station.
After leaving the police station, Liu De thought more and more angry, that must be someone “point”, otherwise how will be found by the school leadership? Liu De looked around for informants, some students said to him that the school leader had been seen at lunch break before leaving the school gate and Xie Jiang walked, the two talked all the way, and then once out of the school gate, Xie Jiang will “hide” to the left side of the road.
“Liu Dexin?” I asked Xie Jiang.
Xie Jiang nodded, said to Liu De said this classmate, is Liu De a “hardcore”, Liu De group in the school leadership and police blocked before, is waiting for this guy in the car, he and the school leadership when walking, this classmate walked behind himself. The guy told Liu De with conviction that he personally heard Xie Jiang’s conversation with the school leaders with words like “Liu De” and “fight”.
The strange students who came to Xie Jiang’s class at lunch break that day were all sent by Liu De to verify Xie Jiang’s identity, and they not only knew Xie Jiang’s name and class, but even his parents’ situation and home address were all inquired about. Later, it is said that even Liu De’s cousin also once let out the word to make Xie Jiang “can not read”, because he caused his “brother” was arrested by the police.
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“Did you ask the school and parents for help?” I asked Xie Jiang.
“I did. ……” Xie Jiang admitted, but his face was full of anger.
He wanted to ask his tablemate to go and talk to Liu De first, explaining that it was just a misunderstanding and that he had not reported him. The table went, but came back to tell Xie Jiang, Liu De said he did not say that Xie Jiang reported himself, Xie Jiang this is “not to confess”.
Two classes later, Xie Jiang could not help himself and went to Liu De to explain to him, but Liu De simply ignored him. The two big, burly students around Liu De pushed Xie Jiang out of the classroom and viciously threatened him that Liu De had “arranged” for him to “not run away after school tonight”. They also threatened Xie Jiang, saying that he “can not stay” in this middle school, let him hurry home to find a school to transfer, “preferably foreign”, so that Liu De cousin with people to “do him “The first thing you need to do is to find a school that you can transfer to.
Xie Jiang was frightened and panicked, hesitated for a long time and decided to ask the school teacher for help.
He first told the class teacher what happened at noon that day and the words of his classmates, who took him to the office of that school leader at noon. The school leader was very busy that afternoon, dealing with the end of the month to meet the higher level of teaching management assessment, he listened to Xie Jiang while organizing the materials, and took a few phone calls in the middle.
After listening to Xie Jiang, the school leader called Xie Jiang’s desk to ask questions. It is not surprising that the table denied on the spot that they had heard that Liu De wanted to retaliate against Xie Jiang. This made Xie Jiang very angry, but in front of the class teacher and school leaders and have a mouth to defend.
Later, Xie Jiang questioned the table, why the school leaders and class teachers in front of the lie? The table discontentedly said to Xie Jiang: “You offended the ‘bearer’ because of the ‘report’, and now let me go to the school leader to ‘report’ him, this It is not obvious to pull me down?”
The first thing that happened was that the students were afraid that they would be “misunderstood” by Liu De’s group, so they went to Liu De’s group and reported that Xie Jiang had once again “reported” them to the school leader’s office.
That afternoon, because they did not get the “testimony” from Xie Jiang’s table that Liu De was planning to retaliate against Xie Jiang, the school leaders probably thought that Xie Jiang was deliberately exaggerating the facts, and reminded Xie Jiang that he should “pay attention to uniting with his classmates, trust the school, and focus on studying, not thinking about the east and the west. “
In the heat of the moment, Xie Jiang directly told the school leaders that Liu De’s group was the school’s “triad” and that they were ganging up and bullying their classmates at school. I didn’t expect this to anger the school leader, he criticized Xie Jiang: “Don’t listen to the wind is rain, the school is full of students, where there is no ‘triad’!” The school leader also cautioned Xie Jiang, the school will soon meet the city’s assessment, as a student in the experimental class, this juncture to speak should “pay attention to the impact, do not give the school a bad name.
After that, Xie Jiang was sent out of the office by the school leader.
“Where is your class teacher? She doesn’t believe you either?” I then asked Xie Jiang.
Xie Jiang said that the class teacher did not say she did not believe him, but only told him: “Since the school leader has said so, you can rest assured that you will attend classes. The school will protect you, if you are still worried about being beaten, you can inform your parents to come and pick you up after school.”
Xie Jiang also wants his parents to pick him up after school, but I don’t know how to ask – his mother gets off work at 9 o’clock every night and works far away from the middle school; his half-brother gets out of school at 5 o’clock in the afternoon, and his stepfather, who drives a night cab, usually sets the cab shift near his brother’s school, so that the first “job” after the shift is to pick up his brother every day.
Although his stepfather had told Xie Jiang that he could call him to pick him up after school, but Xie Jiang’s evening school time is 8:30, it is the cab “good work” time. He had also called his stepfather to pick him up before, and although his stepfather came, his face was obviously not good.
That afternoon, Xie Jiang thought about it and decided to call his stepfather. After the phone call, Xie Jiang asked his stepfather if he was free to pick him up in the evening. My stepfather said that he had a “big job” at the airport in the evening, and he was leaving at 6pm.
Xie Jiang knew that this “big job” stepfather usually rarely received, hesitated, and did not tell his stepfather about being threatened by Liu De’s gang.
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After school, Xie Jiang has been in the school until almost no one shadow, only to warily walk to the school gate, scouting whether there is no one outside “waiting” for them, to confirm that no one saw Liu De gang, he walked out of the school gate. But I didn’t think he just walked to the kiosk door, Liu De gang rushed out from the kiosk, a few upper body wearing school uniforms, lower body wearing “flash pants” students, with a bad smile stopped Xie Jiang.
Xie Jiang was startled – these people are usually close to Liu De students, he often see them get together. Xie Jiang turned around and ran towards the school, but was stopped.
“Did people around come out to stop it?” I asked Xie Jiang.
He shook his head and said there were only a few scattered students in front of the kiosk at that time, but they probably knew Liu De’s “power” and didn’t dare to help him. He had asked two other people for help, one was the owner of the kiosk, standing outside the kiosk door, facing Xie Jiang’s help, but not indifferent, but also smiled; the other is the school security, an old man in his 60s, when being chased by Liu De’s gang, Xie Jiang had turned around and ran to the school gate for help, but the old man closed the school gate in front of him, and said to Xie Jiang through the fence that school was over, the school was closed, to The trouble went out and did not affect his rest.
Finally, Xie Jiang was grabbed by several students and pulled into a small alley outside the school gate – where Liu De and his cousin were waiting.
Xie Jiang said that the moment he was pulled into the small alley, he felt he was “finished”.
Seventeen years, who in the end is harming me
Liu De told Xie Jiang to kneel down, Xie Jiang kneeled down; Liu De and several other students then went forward to take turns slapping Xie Jiang, Xie Jiang did not dare to resist; Liu De cousin said hand slapping is not hard enough, took off his own leather shoes, with the heel of the shoe to beat Xie Jiang’s face, a shoe heel down, Xie Jiang’s face swollen.
The beating lasted for 20 minutes, until Xie Jiang was on the ground, his face was full of blood, seven or eight people stopped. Finally, they stripped Xie Jiang’s clothes, clothes and school bags together to the small hutong on both sides of the bungalow above, said to Xie Jiang a “lesson”, then cursed and left.
That night Xie Jiang was on the ground for more than half an hour, and was finally rescued by a pedestrian passing by. The man saw the tragic state of Xie Jiang, help Xie Jiang clothes and school bags from the roof after taking off, decisively reported to the police.
“Were you seriously injured?” I asked Xie Jiang.
“Later went to the hospital for an examination and found a broken incisor, a broken slot tooth, a broken nose, a perforated eardrum in the right ear, and multiple bruises on the body from the beating ……”
I counted the injuries in my mind, thinking that a group of children with an average age of sixteen or seventeen years old, on their classmates to hit so viciously: “How did the police handle it at the time?”
“At that time things were quite big ……” Xie Jiang said, the police initial understanding of the situation, one side notified Xie Jiang’s parents, one side of the police to look around for Liu De gang, that night, the people involved in the beating of Xie Jiang all brought to the police station, many people’s parents also accompanied.
Seeing her son beaten like that, Xie Jiang’s mother was both heartbroken and angry, and she asked the host police to make sure to severely punish the perpetrators of the assault. The police officer also promised at the time that Xie Jiang’s injuries had constituted minor injuries and that the police would give Xie Jiang justice.
In addition to Liu De, there are three students from the same school who participated in the beating of Xie Jiang, so the police station also notified the school to come to the disposal of people. That night, Xie Jiang met with his class teacher and another school leader at the police station. The class teacher seemed a little embarrassed to see Xie Jiang’s mother, said a quick hello, and followed the police into the office. Soon after, Xie Jiang’s mother was also called to the office, leaving Xie Jiang sitting alone on the couch in the police station duty hall.
In Xie Jiang’s memory, that night was long and confusing. There were people walking around the police station duty hall, including many of the students and their parents who beat him in the small alley: some came up to him to apologize and asked him if he was still in pain; some just glanced at him and didn’t say a word; others walked right past him as if they didn’t see him.
But that night Xie Jiang was very relieved, he felt that the police station came out, school leaders came, those who beat him were also arrested in the police station, he could continue to study at ease afterwards. Gradually, sleepiness came over him, and he fell asleep on the sofa in the duty hall.
When he was awakened by his mother, who had been up all night, it was 6:00 a.m. the next day. Xie Jiang stood up in a daze and went with his mother to the office of the host police, sitting at the desk with a “Mediation Agreement” in front of him.
Xie Jiang’s class teacher and school leaders were also present, and they again expressed their apologies to Xie Jiang, and assured him that they would expel the students who had beaten him when they returned to school. Xie Jiang’s mother added: “Not severe punishment, but must be expelled!” The school leader then said categorically, “Don’t worry, the school will meet immediately to study and give you a satisfactory result!”
Xie Jiang sat there to read the “Mediation Agreement”, which reads, “Liu De and eight others to Xie Jiang apologize and compensate Xie Jiang medical expenses, nutrition costs totaling 25,000 yuan, and to ensure that in the future no longer harass Xie Jiang, the two sides will no longer have disputes over the matter ……” The signatures and handprints of the students who beat him and their parents were all over the place.
At the urging of the police and teachers, Xie Jiang and his mother also signed their names and put their fingerprints on the mediation agreement.
“Is that the end of it?” I asked Xie Jiang.
Xie Jiang gave a reluctant “hmm”. He said that the 16-year-old did not fully understand what the Mediation Agreement meant, but he still felt that he had been beaten and that was the end of the matter.
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Some time later, Xie Jiang learned from his mother that he fell asleep on the couch at the police station the night the crowd discussed what was going on in the police office.
Liu De’s gang admitted to beating Xie Jiang, and the police station was supposed to give them a “procedure”. But in addition to Liu De’s cousin, all the other people involved in the beating of Xie Jiang were high school students, and the school had to be notified – it was the school’s appearance that made a fundamental change in the attitude of the police station – once the school leaders were there, they suggested that the police station police “In other words, they didn’t want to make a big deal out of it and wanted to put things to rest, which is the school’s usual way of dealing with school violence.
The parents of the students involved do not want the police to deal with their children according to the procedure, and the police station does not want to get too stiff with the school – after all, they are not far away from each other, and there is usually a lot of communication and cooperation between them. So, the school leaders and Xie Jiang mother to do work, first “promise” must seriously deal with the students involved in the case, and “goodwill” persuasion: “Xie Jiang is still studying in school, next year will be the entrance exam, this thing is a big deal for Both sides are not good ……”
With the “cooperation” of all parties, Xie Jiang’s mother had to agree and accept the mediation.
“What about Liu De’s cousin? He is not a school student, and does not belong to the minors, he slapped you that a few heels how to count?” I asked Xie Jiang.
He shook his head, said it seems not to deal with, Liu De’s family looked for relations, that thing later also ended.
“How did the school handle Liu De’s group?”
“Deal with?” Xie Jiang sneered.
Soon, Xie Jiang waited for the school’s treatment of Liu De’s group: probation.
Literally, “probation” is indeed a rather serious sanction, just one step away from “expulsion”. But for Liu De, it was an extremely light punishment – he had been on two probation for fighting and brawling for a long time, but it never became “expulsion,” which became a way to intimidate his classmates. Instead, it became his capital to intimidate his classmates.
Xie Jiang’s mother protested to the school, saying that the school director had promised to expel Liu De’s group of students. But the school leader argued that he only promised to “severely punish”, not to “expel”, and that “the probationary punishment was also the result of a collective discussion at a meeting of school leaders, not my personal opinion “The school is not the only place where you can find a school.
Xie Jiang’s mother, worried that her son would be harassed by Liu De’s gang at school, was relentless and repeatedly sought out the school, insisting on the expulsion of Liu De and others. A school leader said directly to her: to expel can be, both sides are expelled, “Xie Jiang and Liu De’s gang were injured in a fight outside the school, if only expelled Liu De and others, is not fair”.
The “beaten” became “mutual assault”, Xie Jiang’s mother angrily took the school leaders to the Education Bureau, but the Education Bureau’s feedback was that the school should “properly handle” the situation.
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Xie Jiang’s situation at school did not improve either. His mother’s actions to “get his side of the story” were the cause of the school’s resentment. Xie Jiang said that soon after his mother took the school leadership to the Education Bureau, the school leadership criticized him several times in public, without naming him.
After a radio exercise, the school leaders specifically to the podium, angrily told the students, the city’s teaching assessment, the middle school did not get good results, because “some students are selfish and self-interested, their own school does not handle the relationship between classmates, but also instigated parents to go to the Education Bureau false accusations against the school, to the school’s honor discredited.
In this regard, the school leadership requires that all grades to hold parent meetings as a class unit, “to strengthen communication with the parents of students”, “all students’ parents must attend”.
All the students in Xie Jiang’s class knew about his mother’s visit to the school board and gave Xie Jiang a sideways glance. Soon, Xie Jiang was isolated in the class.
Within a few days, his stepfather unexpectedly came to school to pick him up from school. Xie Jiang was happy at first, but on the way home, his stepfather told Xie Jiang to go back and persuade his mother to “stop going to the school board to sue.
“Why?” This took me all a bit by surprise – since it was a family, why should Xie Jiang go and open his mouth?
The first time I saw him, I was told that his stepfather did not come to pick him up from school, but was called by his brother’s homeroom teacher to talk to the school. The class teacher told his stepfather “in good faith” that his mother’s actions had “brought serious damage to the school’s reputation” and that if this continued, Xie Jiang’s brother’s future life at school might also be “affected If this continues, Xie Jiang’s brother’s future life at school may also be “affected”.
The stepfather has always believed that Xie Jiang asked his mother to go to the Education Bureau to sue, early on the matter is quite critical, once heard that may be “affected” to the biological son, the heart more agitated. He is not good at stopping his wife directly for fear of causing her misunderstanding, so he wanted Xie Jiang to speak. The stepfather also told Xie Jiang: “Conflicts between classmates in school is normal, who did not experience such things when they were in school? As long as the other party does not provoke you again, so be it, do not make the family unsettled.”
At this point, Xie Jiang had to agree with his stepfather.
“To be honest, although your stepfather’s starting point may be problematic, but he has some truth in what he said, if Liu De’s gang did not harass you again afterwards, you do not need to chase them, right?” I said to Xie Jiang.
“But they are just chasing after me. ……” Xie Jiang said.
After returning from the police station, the first time Xie Jiang saw Liu De at school, Liu De smiled grimly and said three words to him: “You wait. Although 17 years have passed, but to this day, thinking about the scene, Xie Jiang still feel a little fear.
Xie Jiang immediately reported to the class teacher, who found the political education department, which called Liu De for questioning, but Liu De denied it.
At the same time, Liu De’s “boys” also put out the word that “Tak” grew up without giving an apology, Xie Jiang do not think that the police report everything is fine, have the ability to let the police follow him every day, or maybe one day he will “take a bigger beating”.
Xie Jiang went to the school to report, the school also find those who put the word out to question, but those students like Liu De a denied saying those words.
On several occasions, Liu De’s group deliberately used the “offhand” way to let Xie Jiang hear some words, such as “tonight someone in the ‘six-eye bridge’ (Xie Jiang must go through after school) ‘clean up’ Xie Jiang”, “XX school ‘boss’ heard that there is a DP Middle School named Xie Jiang’s bull X, tonight to bring people to school to ‘educate’ him” ……
So and so, let Xie Jiang whole day in the fear and anxiety. The first few times, he went to the teacher to report, the school also attached great importance, specially sent someone to accompany him after school, but did not encounter the “rumors” of those threats. The school then went back to investigate the source of the threats, but no one admitted to them.
This situation continued for several months in a row, causing Xie Jiang’s grades to plummet to more than 300 in his grade.
The school’s dissatisfaction with Xie Jiang grew, and instead of specifically investigating whether the threats he had received were real or not, they thought he was making a big deal out of nothing. Once, when Xie Jiang went to the political education office to report that he had been threatened by Liu De, the teacher of the political education office said to him with a black face: “Xie Jiang, are you finished? If you don’t want to study, forget it! Just a little friction with classmates? It’s been a long time and you’re still not finished, before your mother went to the Education Bureau and sued for losing the school’s excellence award, now you want to turn the school over?
Xie Jiang was scolded to stay there, he suddenly realized that he had become a “liar”, “false accuser” and “fearful of the world” in the eyes of the teachers. In the mouth of his classmates, Xie Jiang has long become a “psychopath”, “scared by Liu De”, “stupid X”, “reporters can “.
“Have you ever tried to ignore those threats? Didn’t you think it was a ‘game’ made for you by Liu De’s gang?” I asked Xie Jiang.
Xie Jiang nodded and said he had thought about it. Then for a while, Xie Jiang did not seem to care about those threats, after all, it was already the beginning of 2000, and there were still six months before the college entrance exams. The point is, those threats only remained in words, and did not once happen to them.
Xie Jiang began to regroup and prepare for the college entrance exam in July of that year. Through hard work, his grades rose, although there was still a small gap from the previous best results, but he believed that he would be able to get into the ideal university if he continued to work hard.
However, in early July 2000, two days before the college entrance exam, Xie Jiang was once again beaten.
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That evening, Xie Jiang rode his bicycle home, and just as he passed the “six-eye bridge”, several “social youths” stopped him. Several of them beat Xie Jiang up, threw his school bag and bicycle into the river under the bridge, and then left.
Once again, Xie Jiang was admitted to the hospital, and after the doctor checked his injuries, he reported it to the police.
The police first contacted Liu De, but he was out of town – his family had arranged for him to study abroad, and he had been picked up by his father half a month before the murder and taken to the provincial capital. The police sent people to the provincial capital, facing the police, Liu De denied that he participated or planned the assault on Xie Jiang. Liu De’s father was very dissatisfied with the police, asking them to “talk about evidence” and not to “see the wind is rain”.
The police also summoned Liu De cousin, he also did not admit his participation in the matter. As there was no surveillance near the six-eye bridge, it was dark at the time of the crime, and Xie Jiang did not take note of the abuser’s face. The police issued a collaborative investigation notice, asking pedestrians who passed by there that night to provide clues. Some people provided some clues, but after verification by the police, they were all ruled out one by one.
Two days later, Xie Jiang reluctantly took the college entrance exam, but due to his injuries and emotional imbalance, he ultimately failed to complete the exam, with a score of just over 200 points.
After coming out of the examination hall, Xie Jiang’s mental state became problematic, and he subconsciously decided that everything was done by Liu De’s group, with the simple purpose of “destroying him”.
He first talked to himself a lot, and when his family listened closely, they all cursed Liu De; later he became suspicious, saying that Liu De’s “minions” were hurting him; finally he developed into violent behavior without any reason – he would suddenly hit people and accuse them of being “sent” by Liu De.
Sometimes Xie Jiang would kill himself, using a utility knife to cut his own arm to blood, and when his family went to stop him, he just said it was Liu De’s arm and he was taking revenge. The family sent Xie Jiang to the hospital, where he was diagnosed as having a real mental problem.
The school compensated Xie Jiang’s family a sum of money, because Xie Jiang was beaten on the way to school, the school claimed that the money was paid “in the spirit of humanitarianism”, on the condition that Xie Jiang’s family would not bother the school in the future.
Xie Jiang was treated and recuperated at home for two full years before his mental state finally stabilized. However, he could not be stimulated and sometimes had intermittent attacks.
Around 2004, his family tried to find a job for Xie Jiang, but he only has a high school education and suffers from intermittent mental illness, most units refused to take him, and finally had to find a job looking at the warehouse. After a few months of work, Xie Jiang was politely dismissed by his boss because he was “often nervous”. After that, he has been idle at home, occasionally go out to do some temporary work, most of them are just handing out leaflets, moving goods and other work.
In the same year, on the advice of their lawyer, Xie Jiang’s family intended to take the school to court, demanding that they take responsibility for Xie Jiang’s beating, but the lawyer commissioned by the school demanded that Xie Jiang’s family first return the money the school had previously paid out. But that money was used for Xie Jiang’s treatment for several years, and most of it was used by Xie Jiang’s stepfather to buy a house for his biological son in the provincial capital.
Xie Jiang’s family thought twice about not going to court with the school.
In 2005, his parents told Xie Jiang that they had gone to the provincial capital several times to look for Liu De’s family, hoping to get an explanation, but nothing came of it.
By 2006, Xie Jiang’s mental state gradually stabilized, and his family found him a few jobs, but they were not long; by 2008, Xie Jiang failed repeatedly in dating due to mental problems and was devastated; in 2009, Liu De’s wedding, back to the city to invite friends and relatives, Xie Jiang learned the news from the mouth of his former classmates, and only then began to pay attention to Liu De’s movements again.
This year, Xie Jiang’s family also intended to buy a daughter-in-law for Xie Jiang from Hunan, so they sued the school again for compensation, but the school’s response remained the same as before. After consulting with a lawyer, Xie Jiang’s family learned that even if they won the lawsuit, the amount of compensation they received would not be too high, so they withdrew the lawsuit again.
Every time the stepfather and mother came back, and Xie Jiang said, the reason why so many years have not been able to discuss a claim, all because the Liu family is powerful, find someone to suppress the case. “His family is a big official, we are ordinary people”, this sentence also in later Xie Jiang was interrogated, constantly mentioned. From then on, Xie Jiang began to seek revenge.
So, Xie Jiang began to often in Liu De’s neighborhood, as well as the small square next to the neighborhood wander. One night, he really ran into Liu De, but did not have a knife on him.
“I think Liu De that boy will definitely come back, before his family lives in the small square, his house has not been sold, because a few times I saw his mother out of that neighborhood!” Xie Jiang said.
Finally, he waited until this evening in July 2016, stabbed the knife into Liu De’s body.
8
In August 2016, Liu De’s injuries improved, and my colleagues and I took statements from him in the hospital room.
Although Liu De was the victim in this case, I really did not have a good impression of him and inevitably took the statement with some emotion.
I asked Liu De if he knew Xie Jiang, and Liu De nodded and said yes. I asked him how his relationship with Xie Jiang, he smiled and said, “Xie Jiang should have told you all before, right?”
I said, “He said to him, you said to you. If you want, we will all prevail according to what he said, you do not have to say anything.”
My colleague gave me a wink, signaling that I was a victim and told me to pay attention to my attitude.
“I fought with him when I was studying, and I haven’t seen him since I graduated.” Liu De said, “Why did he stab me with a knife?”
According to Liu De, he had been studying abroad after graduating from high school and had hardly ever returned to the city. After returning to China, he has been working in a state-owned enterprise in the provincial capital, just transferred back to the city last month to “accumulate grassroots work experience”, he did not understand his own and Xie Jiang had not seen for more than ten years, why a meeting on the knife.
I sneered in my heart, thinking Liu De this guy is really irritating, obviously know Xie Jiang hate his reason, but in front of the police posturing.
I thought there was no need to beat around the bush with him, so I told him straightforwardly about Xie Jiang’s previous confession. As soon as I finished, Liu De fell into silence for a long time before he sighed and said, “I didn’t expect him to remember this revenge for nearly 20 years.”
“This change who can not forget, sixteen or seventeen years old, the heart of the dream, excellent results, but finally because you do good things to end up in this situation, you are comfortable, the year ‘face’ also have, ‘enemy’ also by you whole crazy, and finally patted his ass to study abroad, came back also as a ‘reserve cadres’, wife and children, happy life, but ……”
A colleague kicked me under the hospital bed, and I forced myself to shut my mouth.
I did not expect Liu De but not angry, but the tone is very calm and said, “I was too much that year, then really did not expect the consequences will be so serious. At that age, many things said to understand also understand, said not to understand also do not understand, only thinking that Xie Jiang reported themselves, they want to export their anger, did not think things would eventually develop into this way ……”
“You gas also out, people also played, to his college entrance examination before the whole so a play? You do not have to take the entrance exam, but he can only count on the entrance exam ah!” After saying that I stared at Liu De’s eyes, he should understand which thing I am talking about.
“That thing before his college entrance exams, it really wasn’t me, nor did I find someone to do it.” Liu De explained that he was busy with the procedures for studying abroad during that time, and he didn’t have the time to plan that thing.
“Then who did it?” I was a little surprised.
“A man named Huang Bin.” Liu De said.
My colleague and I froze for a moment.
Liu De said Huang Bin, is Xie Jiang’s first beating, the van on the fugitive.
Liu De said, after Huang Bin was arrested, because of provocation was sentenced to eight months, before the family originally intended to send him to the military, but because of the previous record, he is no longer possible to step into the military half a step in this life.
Huang Bin’s parents were furious, Huang Bin was released from prison, the family did not look good to him. Huang Bin “painful”, the hatred of all on the Xie Jiang, so that together with others plotted the Xie Jiang college entrance examination before the violence.
“Where is Huang Bin now?” I asked Liu De.
“I haven’t seen it for many years, a few years ago I heard my cousin say that Huang Bin was sentenced to a heavy sentence for intentional injury, and now he should still be serving his sentence in which prison.” Liu De said.
“Since you know that Huang Bin did it, when Xie Jiang’s family went to your house in 2005, why didn’t you tell them?” I then asked Liu De.
“That time his parents made a big fuss at my house, when I was abroad, my dad called me specifically to say that, my dad also called my cousin back from Shanghai to testify for this. Later, I heard that they went together to find Huang Bin ……,” Liu De said.
“Ah?!” I was stunned, “So, Xie Jiang’s parents know who did it back then?”
Liu De nodded, said the year did not tell the door to find his police, is afraid that the matter also has a cousin’s share, later learned that the matter and cousin also has nothing to do, they do not need to hide anything.
“And then? Xie Jiang family found Huang Bin?”
Liu De said, found, then Huang Bin just because of suspected serious injury was handled by the police, but for physical reasons “bail” at home. Huang Bin admitted the year revenge beatings Xie Jiang, Huang Bin parents worried about this thing out again to their son to increase the sentence, so proposed to the Xie family 50,000 yuan, let them give up pursuing, Xie Jiang parents did not agree at the time.
According to Liu De, the amount of compensation requested by Xie Jiang’s parents was about 200,000, but Huang Bin committed that lifting injury case need to pay a large sum of money to the victim, the Huang family could not get another money to pay to the Xie family. Since then, Huang, Xie two families have been involved in unclear, and then the Huang family simply do not pay, let Xie Jiang’s parents go to the police, “big deal, let Huang Bin more squatting years.
The two families finally reached what kind of agreement, Liu De does not know, but he said, although Xie Jiang’s parents found the real culprit, but also has not let him go: “They still come to my house from time to time, said Xie Jiang sophomore year I beat that thing is not over, my parents annoyed, also proposed 50,000 yuan to close, but they still do not agree, especially Xie Jiang his father. “
“What do they want to do?”
Liu De laughed: “His father said Xie Jiang also has a brother, graduated from college, so my father in the provincial capital to him to arrange a formal establishment of the job, the thing is over.”
9
As Liu De’s father has not arranged a “formal establishment” job for Xie Jiang’s brother, the conflict between the Xie and Liu families has not been completed over the years, until Xie Jiang stabbed Liu De’s three stabs.
After resuscitation, Liu De’s life is safe, but the spleen was removed, the injury reached the level of serious injury.
Liu De’s parents do not believe that Xie Jiang has mental illness, that he stabbed Liu De is “premeditated”, Xie Jiang’s parents continue to insist that Xie Jiang has mental illness. The case is significant, the public security organs organized a judicial examination, the conclusion is: Xie Jiang does suffer from intermittent mental illness, but the crime was not onset, so need to bear criminal responsibility.
Finally, Xie Jiang was sent to prison on suspicion of intentional injury causing serious injury.
I thought the case was over, but soon after, Liu De’s parents found me again. They said that the Xie family only paid 10,000 yuan in hospital fees on the day Liu De was admitted to the hospital, and refused to take any more money out after that. Liu De’s wife and mother asked me to call Xie Jiang’s parents to collect the medical fees, and when I called Xie Jiang’s family, Xie Jiang’s stepfather said that Liu De’s family “owed” them 50,000 yuan, and that “it was deducted from that money.
I asked him when Liu De’s parents “owed” 50,000 yuan, but Xie Jiang’s stepfather told me to ask Liu De’s parents, and then hung up the phone.
I called Xie Jiang’s mother again and told her that active compensation is a prerequisite for the other side to reach an understanding, and I hope she will seriously consider it for the sake of her son’s sentence. Xie Jiang’s mother was very anxious, but also very difficult, saying that the family’s money is in the hands of her husband, just before the youngest son in the provincial capital loan to buy a house, Liu De stabbing case just happened, her husband took out all the family savings, paid off the mortgage in advance.
I had to relay the original message to Liu De’s parents, they complained to me that the other side did this “pure scoundrel”.
But I can only tell them that the police can only pursue Xie Jiang’s criminal liability, as for civil compensation, but also can only hire a lawyer and file a civil lawsuit later.
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