Chinese cyclist ‘carries out revenge attack on Japanese car’
Man, 31, arrested by police in Guangdong province after reportedly deliberately crashing his electric bicycle into front of Toyota and then hitting the bonnet of the car with a road sign
A Chinese man reportedly deliberately crashed his electric bicycle into a Japanese car and then struck the bonnet using a road sign “as an act of revenge for China”, mainland media reports.
The man, identified only by his surname, Qin, allegedly rode his bicycle into the Toyota car while the driver was waiting at traffic lights at a road junction in the city of Zhongshan, in Guangdong province, on Tuesday afternoon, Zhongshan Daily reported.
After hitting the car with his bike, Qin, 31, threw a bag at the car, sending the contents of the bag flying across the road, the report said on Thursday.
Qin then allegedly picked up a small road safety sign from the side of the road and smashed it onto the bonnet of the vehicle, while shouting, “[I am taking revenge for China [by] damaging Japanese cars”.
The owner of the car then called the police.
Qin was detained at the scene but reportedly broke free from the police and ran over to another vehicle of unknown make and shattered the front windscreen with his fist.
He was then arrested and handcuffed by police, who took him to the local police station.
Qin is originally from Henan province and works for a company providing security guard services.
Police are now investigating the case. The report did not give further details about the alleged incident.
In 2012, angry Chinese protesters carried out widespread vandalism, causing damage worth more than US$100 million to Japanese buildings and cars in major mainland cities because of a territorial dispute over the Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea.
Renewed anger had flared up in August and September that year after Tokyo nationalised three disputed islands in the East China Sea, which it controls under the name of the Senkaku islands.
China and Japan were also at war between 1937 to 1945.
China says 300,000 civilians and soldiers died in a spree of killing, rape and destruction in the six weeks after the Japanese military entered the then capital of Nanjing on December 13, 1937.
