The tenant has a conflict with the landlord.
Sabotage of gas pipelines.
What are the penalties?
Recently. Guangming District People's Court of Shenzhen, Guangdong.
A case was announced.
Due to the destruction of gas equipment and endangering public safety.
The tenant, Xiaojia, was sentenced to three years in prison.
Dissatisfied with the landlord.
The tenant sabotaged the gas pipeline twice in a row.
In January 2021, Xiao Jia rented a room in Uncle Huang (the landlord). In April, Xiao Jia was dissatisfied with Uncle Huang and removed and destroyed the end plug of the gas pipeline in the rental house, causing 1,615 cubic meters of natural gas to leak.
In addition, Xiao Jia also destroyed the beds and toilet water pipes in the room, did not turn off the power supply in the room, and blocked the keyhole of the door with glue before fleeing the house, causing 32 tons of water and 135 kilowatt-hours of electricity in the room to be wasted.
In April 2021, Xiao Jia was dissatisfied with the landlord Uncle Wu and used the same modus operandi, causing 321 tons of water and 78 kilowatt-hours of electricity in Uncle Wu's room to be wasted.
In May 2021, Uncle Huang and Uncle Wu found that the gas pipeline was damaged, so they called the police.
In June 2021, Xiaojia was arrested by the public security organs. After identification, Xiao Jia continuously dismantled and damaged the end plug of the gas pipeline in the rented room of the victim Uncle Huang and Uncle Wu in a short period of time, causing a natural gas leakage accident in the house and causing great risks to the safety of the surrounding residents.
The tenant pleaded guilty and accepted punishment after arriving at the case.
The court imposed a lenient sentence of three years.
The court held at trial that the defendant Xiaojia destroyed gas equipment and endangered public safety, and although it had not caused serious consequences, his behavior had constituted the crime of destroying flammable and explosive equipment. In view of the fact that the defendant Xiaojia pleaded guilty and accepted punishment after being brought into the case, he may be given a lighter punishment in accordance with law. The court convicted the defendant Xiaojia of destroying flammable and explosive equipment in accordance with the law and sentenced him to three years in prison. The judgment has entered into force.
Chen Qinghan, a first-level judge of the criminal division of the court, said that gas safety is a major matter related to the national economy and people's livelihood, involving thousands of households. In this case, the defendant Xiao Jia acted impulsively and dismantled and damaged the end plug of the gas pipeline in the room of the rental house, resulting in the leakage of natural gas in the gas pipeline.
Public natural gas pipelines are a "red line" that no individual, unit or organization can cross. Judge Chen reminded that the general public must correctly understand the seriousness and harmfulness of acts that impede public safety, and do not act impulsively in life to avoid harming others and themselves. Gas facilities transport flammable and explosive medium, which has dangerous characteristics, and the damage to gas pipelines is very easy to cause gas leakage, causing disasters and accidents, and directly endangering the safety of people's lives and property. It is necessary to resolutely say "no" to the behavior of arbitrarily destroying or modifying gas pipelines without authorization, and jointly maintain the safe and normal operation of gas pipeline networks.
Link to the law] Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 118 Whoever destroys electricity, gas or other inflammable or explosive equipment, endangering public safety, and has not caused serious consequences, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.
Article 67: Those who voluntarily surrender after committing a crime and truthfully confess their own crimes are to turn themselves in. Criminals who surrender themselves may be given a lighter or commuted punishment. Of these, where the crime is relatively minor, punishment may be waived.
Where criminal suspects, defendants, or convicts currently serving a sentence who have been subjected to compulsory measures truthfully confess other crimes of their own that are not yet known to the judicial organs, they are to be considered to have voluntarily surrendered.
Where criminal suspects do not have the circumstances of voluntary surrender provided for in the preceding two paragraphs, but truthfully confess their own crimes, they may be given a lighter punishment;Where they truthfully confess their own crimes to avoid especially serious consequences, the punishment may be commuted.
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