A man surnamed Zhou, who was smuggled to Taiwan from Fujian Province, is questioned by Taiwanese police at the west pier of Taichung Harbor in the early morning of May 1. (Video screenshot)
Recently, a mainland man drove a rubber boat and smuggled himself from Fujian to Taiwan. A video of his conversation with Taiwanese police has been circulating on the Internet. The man said that the mainland is bad in all aspects and he came to Taiwan to defect to freedom and equality in Taiwan.
According to Taiwanese media reports, a man surnamed Zhou, who was smuggled to Taiwan from Fujian, called out for help to dock workers at the west dock of Taichung Harbor in the early morning of May 1.
A dock worker heard his cry for help and bought food for him and provided him with clothes to keep him warm. Subsequently, both the Coast Guard and Taichung Port Police arrived at the scene.
Mr. Zhou told the police that he set out from Fujian on April 30, driving a rubber boat with an outboard engine, loaded with 90 liters of fuel, to cross the Taiwan Strait.
Zhou said, “The wind and waves were calm along the way, and it took nearly 16 hours to arrive in Taiwan without incident.”
According to the report, the man climbed the embankment, because of unfamiliarity with the place, do not know where to go, so sit in place and wait. Until 2:00 a.m. on the 1st, he heard someone’s voice, so he rushed to call.
The video of Zhou Nan’s conversation with the Taiwanese police has been circulating on the Internet. He said that he did not commit any crime in the mainland and is not a wanted criminal, he just yearns for the democratic freedom in Taiwan.
He said, “I came to Taiwan mainly because it’s more free and equal here”.
The Taiwanese police asked him, “Is the mainland really bad?”
Zhou replied, “My feeling is, all kinds of bad, all aspects are bad.” So I came to “defect to the freedom of Taiwan.”
He said he had no plans at all to do after arriving in Taiwan, and had no friends or relatives in Taiwan, but just wanted to be free to live in Taiwan. (Click to watch video)
The man has been taken back to the police detention center for quarantine, and the case is under investigation by the prosecutor.
Taiwan’s senior marine patrol officers said, Fujian to Taichung port distance of about 180 kilometers, 80 kilometers per hour Strait, the voyage of about two hours. Zhou man driving a rubber boat, the speed is not fast, and the Taiwan Strait in the middle of the waves, to cross safely have difficulty. He believes that the man may first take a fishing boat in the mainland, to the strait before inflating the rubber boat to Taiwan.
However, a Taiwanese fisherman said that these days, the western waters of the small waves, rubber boats are possible to drive from the mainland to Taiwan. And rubber boats are small, sometimes lower than the waves during the voyage, not easily detected by radar.
In recent years, the mainland people smuggled to Taiwan in rubber boats have occurred from time to time. on October 4, 2016, the Marine Patrol Agency had found a speedboat in Taichung Gomez wetlands, leaving mainland cigarettes, mineral water and eight life jackets on board, but at that time did not find stowaways.
On April 28 of the same year, a 43-year-old man surnamed Qian from Zhejiang Province on the mainland rowed a rubber boat towards Kinmen, and was found by the Kinmen Coast Guard at the interbank of the double enclosure in Xiaojinmen.
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