One afternoon in 1994, a group of people from the Xiangshui County Public Security Bureau came to report the case. The first reaction of the police on duty at that time was that they thought it was a crowd of people who came to gather **.
Because the informant of this case is a whole bus, with up to 40 passengers. After telling the process of the crime, the police learned that the two women in the car were tragically attacked by the gangsters, and the passengers of the entire car became witnesses.
The "716" robbery that shocked the nation.
The matter has to go back to July 16, 1994, Xiangshui County, Jiangsu Province started a bus bound for Shanghai. The driver also pulled 40 passengers on the road out of the county on time.
Because the traffic was not developed at that time, you had to walk through many country roads to get out of the county, and on an unknown road, a group of people suddenly appeared in front of the bus. Originally, the driver thought it was a passenger who wanted to take a ride, but who knew that they suddenly took out the prepared ** and stones, smashed them directly at the bus, and forced the moving vehicle to stop.
One of them took out a machete and coerced the driver to open the door, and the frightened driver opened the door without saying a word, which put all the passengers in the car into dire straits.
Eight gangsters got on the bus with sharp weapons, and without asking why, they beat the male passenger sitting in the first row and injured the passenger with a blunt object. Seeing such a scene, the other passengers in the car were so frightened that they didn't dare to make a sound, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Get your money out. The gangsters led by the gang used a long knife to force everyone to prepare money, and told the younger brother to loot one by one, and when he passed in front of the two female passengers, the gangster suddenly became furious, and he directly tore the clothes of the two female passengers.
Please don't hurt me, I'll give you money. The female passenger was frightened by this scene, and she tried her best to resist, but how could a weak woman resist a villain like a jackal.
Drag her out of the car. As soon as the gangsters gave the order, several gangsters behind him dragged the woman under the car.
The woman also tried her best to pull the car door and shouted for help to the passengers in the car, but the 40 people were indifferent, and they did not dare to look at the woman, for fear that the gangster's knife would swing at them.
After seeing that no one resisted, the gangsters intensified and once again extended their claws to another innocent woman in the car, and the two were ** by eight gangsters for 2 hours. And all this happened in front of the eyes of the whole car person, after the gangsters ransacked the passengers' money and swaggered away.
In the past few hours, no one has come forward to face the gangsters, and after relieving themselves, the driver rushed several injured passengers to the hospital, and also went to the local police station to report the case.
After understanding the situation, ** found that one of them was robbed of 900 yuan, 900 yuan was not a small amount at that time, and it had constituted a serious crime of robbery.
At the first time, the local ** issued an order, led by the director of the public security bureau to form a special team to investigate and arrest the suspects, and after three days of investigation, ** also mastered the whereabouts of the criminals.
In the early morning of July 19th, ** also carried out an arrest operation, and all eight suspects were arrested, it is reported that this group of criminal gangs carried out similar bus robberies in the early days, and 4 people also had a criminal record, the most shocking thing is that the youngest of them is only 15 years old, and the oldest is only 23 years old.
After the court's verdict, five of them were also sentenced to death, two to life imprisonment, and the suspect under the age of 16 was sentenced to two years in prison because of the relatively minor circumstances of the crime.
When the net of the law falls, these criminals should know their fate. Justice will never be absent, and people applaud the arrest of this group of gangsters, but more questioning voices have also formed on the Internet, and it is also a silent accusation against a car of people.
Will the passenger's indifference become a crime** and thus be held responsible?
Summing up the voices of the 716 case, many netizens are condemning the passengers on the bus, and none of the passengers in the face of crime and violence have come forward and chose to acquiesce to the crime.
There are also extreme voices saying that the passengers on the bus also need to be punished by the law because they are criminals
But in fact, it is clearly pointed out in the criminal law that two or more people must jointly commit the crime and participate in the process of committing the crime to constitute the first act.
As for the other passengers in the car, they are victims and did not participate in the entire criminal process of robbery, ** and assault, so for all passengers in the car, it does not constitute a crime.
So some people will say, does it constitute a crime for them not to bail out? In China's legal provisions, there is no clear criminal conclusion of not carrying out rescue, and whether passengers rescue or not depends entirely on their personal thoughts.
But from another point of view, the passengers in the car were in a critical situation at that time, facing the gangsters with sharp weapons, ordinary people would definitely not be able to calm down and try to fight the gangsters, after all, it was a matter of life safety.
So what should we do in the face of gangsters and criminals? The best way is to ensure your own safety first, and at the same time find the right time, if you can muster enough forces, you can work together to prevent the occurrence of **.
For example, in 2015, a knife-wielding assailant slashed nine people, including women and children, and even beggars on the street, in downtown Jinjiang.
Just as the gangsters were looking for the next target, five people rushed to the gangsters together, and worked together with the police who rushed to kill the gangsters. Therefore, when the crime comes to us, we should not stand idly by, as citizens, we have the responsibility to maintain law and order to stop the occurrence of evil deeds, but all this must be carried out under the premise of ensuring safety.
Cold-eyed bystanders often bring arrogance to criminals, just like the 716 case, the same robbery, according to **, in the previous robberies, no one resisted, 8 criminals repeatedly succeeded, and finally laid the fuse for 716**.
If all the passengers of the bus rise up to resist, it is characterized as mutual assault or legitimate defense.
I believe that this issue is also the focus of your attention, if the 8 criminals committed atrocities, the passengers on the car work together, with the advantage of numbers, these criminals will definitely be able to ** these criminals.
But if there is a conflict, there will definitely be some injuries, so will the passengers be characterized as a brawl? First of all, let's understand the definition of mutual assault, the law stipulates that if two parties have a physical altercation, and neither party has suffered an illegal assault, such a fight will be characterized as mutual assault.
Justifiable defense refers to the timely defensive measures taken in the event of an unlawful infringement, or the act of preventing the infringement after the occurrence of an unlawful infringement, which can be defined as legitimate defense.
Take the 716 case as an example, when the gangster inflicted ** on two female passengers, if the rest of the passengers in the car rose up to resist, it was a typical justified defense process.
Such an act would not constitute a crime, but if the passenger accidentally kills the gangster, or if it goes beyond the scope of defense, causing significant damage, it will be characterized as excessive defense. In this way, the parties need to appear in court to be heard by the judge and finally determine whether it constitutes a crime.
Whether the bus driver has an obligation to protect the safety of passengers, and whether it is a crime to open the door for gangsters to enter.
After talking about the passengers on the bus, let's talk about the driver of the bus, after the details of the case were revealed, many netizens also said that if the driver did not open the door at that time, such a tragedy would not have happened.
They believe that it was the driver who caused the passengers to be violated, and the driver was more like the gangster's **. In terms of the driver's responsibilities, as an employee of the bus company, his working principle is to deliver passengers to the designated location, and ensure that passengers can arrive at their destination safely, and ensure the personal safety of passengers when necessary.
In this case, the bus driver was confronted with a knife-wielding gangster and was coerced by the gangster before opening the door, so the driver's behavior of opening the door can be determined to be unintentional. In addition, if you consider that if you do not open the door, the gangsters will take more drastic actions.
Combined with these circumstances, the prosecutor will use this as a basis for the final trial and conviction investigation, and in most cases the driver will not be guilty of a crime.
But this case also reflects the lack of ability of bus drivers in many areas to deal with emergency situations, and perhaps drivers have better choices. For passengers, after protecting their own safety, they should be more cohesive to stop this tragedy from happening.
In any case, criminals cannot escape the punishment of the law, and only by abiding by the law and learning the law and picking up the law to protect themselves is the most correct choice.