The Great Hall of the People, located on the west side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the capital of China, is one of the important pivotal organs of our country, the place where the National People's Congress is held, and the place where important foreign guests from all over the world are received and press conferences are held.
However, in the 60s of the last century, a bizarre unsolved case occurred in this solemn and grand building, when a bullet hole appeared in the exterior glass of the second-floor meeting room, raising the suspicion that someone had shot at the General Assembly Hall from a distance.
When *** was receiving important foreign guests in the auditorium, a big event suddenly happened and shocked everyone. **A task force was quickly set up and the difficult investigation work began.
However, at the meeting of many experts, not a single person could find any clues, not even the location of the gunman's shot. After a long carpet search and multiple evidence collections, ** finally surfaced, but unexpectedly, this "** is not real**, this result made everyone jaw-dropping, and also made this already eye-catching case even more confusing.
In the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of February 2, 1966, Zhang Shanlan was diligently cleaning the first floor. As a waitress inside the auditorium, she feels extremely honored to work in such a place.
However, when she stepped onto the second floor to continue her work, she found some shards of glass on the northwest side of the service room wall. It turned out that the glass of one of the windows had shattered.
After careful observation, Zhang Shanlan found that the original solid double glass was full of cracks, and she also found two small circular holes, which she quickly realized were bullet holes!
Realizing this, she was so frightened that she immediately crouched down, and then screamed and rushed to the security department downstairs. Hearing this news, Yu Sang, who was then the vice minister of public security, received a ** call ten minutes later, and the soldiers of the Security Department of the Great Hall told him that there had been a **, and the glass on the north side of the second floor had been broken.
At this time, another waiter, Jiang Zongke, had also found a deformed bullet warhead in the middle of the crack between the double glasses.
Yu Sang's heartbeat accelerated with a loud bang, and he knew that *** was working in the hall. He immediately organized a large number of police officers to quickly arrive at the scene. It was only after confirming that the prime minister was safe and sound that his heart relaxed.
He led people to the pane of glass, and the staff carefully removed the so-called "murder weapon". After identification, they confirmed that it was a 56mm small-cut *** bullets, the situation is getting more and more serious.
Why would anyone shoot at the General Assembly Hall? From where was the shot fired? The bullet hit the second floor, how did the other party know that the prime minister happened to receive foreign guests on the second floor?
1.The Beijing Public Security Bureau quickly reported a series of questions about Sang to the Ministry of Public Security and **, which aroused great concern throughout the country. People began to speculate whether this was espionage, a conspiracy by foreign powers, or some other bad intentions.
At this point in time, only 17 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are still many problems to be solved in the country, and this sudden "assassination" operation has undoubtedly plunged the whole country into a panic.
2.*On the second day, I visited the site to check the situation and expressed great importance. At the same time, he also criticized the cadres of the Security Section for not finding out in time that the General Assembly Hall had been subjected to **.
If it weren't for the waiter who inadvertently saw the glass, this ** incident might have gone unnoticed, and people didn't even know where the person who shot was ** and when the gun was fired.
This made everyone present deeply ashamed. 3.The Beijing Public Security Bureau immediately reported a series of problems to the Ministry of Public Security and **, which aroused widespread concern across the country.
People began to speculate whether this "assassination" was an espionage, a conspiracy by foreign forces, or some other bad intentions. At this point in the 17 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are still many problems in the country that need to be solved urgently, and this sudden incident has undoubtedly shocked the whole country.
4.* Go to the site in person on the second day to understand the situation and express that you attach great importance to it. At the same time, he also criticized the cadres of the Security Section for failing to detect the ** in the General Assembly Hall in time.
If it weren't for the waiter's inadvertent sight of the glass, this ** incident might have gone unnoticed, and people would not even know where the person who fired the shot was and when the shot was fired.
This made everyone present feel very ashamed.
In accordance with the instructions, the Ministry of Public Security, the commander of the Beijing Military Region, the chief of the general staff and the political commissar and other important members all participated, and the top criminal investigation experts and elite police officers from all over the country formed a joint task force to deal with the incident.
Under the guidance of the leaders, experts from the light research and the military security department also came to the scene to investigate. The task force preliminarily judged that this incident may be an assassination activity, because the City Hall is a place where *** and *** often operate, and the gunman may have attacked and injured a certain chief.
At the same time, they also determined that the time of occurrence was between 10 and 12 a.m., because the bullet was fired from a small opening. Therefore, if the glass can be penetrated, then the gunner must not be far from the Great Hall, at least no more than 500 meters.
The initial challenge was to determine the exact location of the shooter, when no surveillance equipment was available. In order to achieve this, experts must restore the flight path of the bullet through **ballistics.
Since the glass is double-layered, there is a bullet hole in each glass. Using information such as the type of bullet, the size and depth of the bullet holes, the experts tried their best to reconstruct the trajectory of the bullet and came to a unanimous conclusion that the gunman fired in the Chang'an Avenue driveway.
However, standing on the main road and firing a gun would certainly cause confusion, but this was not reflected in the day's report. Everything seemed perfectly normal, and the gunman wouldn't be stupid enough to be easily spotted in such a situation.
Therefore, the task force made a reasonable assumption that the gunman fired from a car that drove from Chang'an Avenue to the front of the Great Hall of the People, where the gunman opened fire and quickly left.
In a grim situation, due to the limitations of scientific conditions and clues, we can only resort to the most primitive but necessary method - carpet search. The importance of this task cannot be overstated, so we have mobilized a large number of police forces to work on it.
On the morning of February 2, they conducted a comprehensive investigation of more than 1,000 motor vehicles on the Chang'an Avenue Expressway, and then again inspected all the high-rise residential buildings around the City Hall that may be **.
Finally, we conducted a thorough investigation of all units and private individuals in Beijing with small-caliber firearms. Although we conducted a detailed survey of the vehicles, the results were not satisfactory, as only one car from the Beijing Institute of Geology brought back more than forty rifles from the repair shop in Tong County, Hebei Province.
Moreover, the six people in the vehicle and the driver confirmed that no one had fired a shot, and other than that, no other suspicious circumstances were found.
After a team of experts simulated the test on the spot, the results showed that several police officers opened fire while driving through the Chang'an Avenue Expressway and passing by the Great Hall of the People, and the driving speed was adjusted in the three experiments, but the results did not match the situation at the scene of the crime.
Obviously, this path is not the right one. The ** experts and criminal investigation experts present were embarrassed, and no one could provide answers. The investigation is at an impasse, and everyone is anxious.
In this case, a young detective stepped forward and said that he might have a unique idea.
Chen Jianhua is a 26-year-old police officer who is a fledgling novice in the task force. However, now that the task of solving the case is urgent, they decided to listen to all parties.
Chen Jianhua was therefore allowed to speak. He said there was a strange phenomenon in the shattered glass. In his experiments, bullet shots at short distances did not cause such damage.
He believed that the bullet was more like it was fired from a long distance, and the trajectory was not in a straight line, presumably in the northwest direction. Chen Jianhua's view subverts the judgment of previous experts.
Although the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security is uncertain, they believe that practice makes sense. Therefore, in the afternoon of the same day, they immediately conducted a completely new round of shooting experiments at the Xishan shooting range in Beijing.
Several snipers in the army shot the brand new glass from different distances and directions. As expected, at a distance of four or five hundred meters, almost the same bullet holes appeared!
Through the unremitting efforts of the task force, a major breakthrough was made in the case. According to preliminary speculation, the gunman's firing position was in the residential area of Nanchang Street, four or five hundred meters north of Chang'an Avenue.
In order to find the whereabouts of the guns, the task force launched a comprehensive dragnet search, focusing on the area around Nanchang Street. With the efforts of ** day and night, the scope of the search gradually narrowed, and finally focused on the vicinity of the south exit of Nanchang Street.
The slow progress of the search is not due to the slow action of **, but the special identity of the residential area in this area. It is inhabited by ** or senior military cadres, and their livelihood needs to be guaranteed, so the search operation must minimize the impact on them as much as possible.
In the compound at No. 44 Dayanle Hutong in Nankou, the staff also conducted a detailed inspection of the guns, but no guns related to the case were found. Just as he was about to give up, a remark from the doorman caught everyone's attention, and he mentioned that several children in the compound had been shooting birds with guns on the rooftops recently.
For a moment, everyone was stunned. They acted quickly, investigated one by one, and finally targeted a child named Li Dimin. Li Dimin's background is not simple, his father is Comrade Li Da, a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and now deputy director of the State Sports Commission.
However, in the face of so many personnel of the task force, Li Dimin was very confused, and he did not hide what happened: At about 10 o'clock in the morning of February 2, he used his father's small mouth with a scope to play with sparrows in the yard, and fired a shot to kill one, and then he climbed to the roof of the garage in the front yard to continue fighting, but two more shots were fired later, but none of them hit the birds, and all of them failed, and then he collected the gun and went home.
After some in-depth analysis and analysis, the task force came to a clear conclusion. According to the information provided by Li Dimin, they found that the location where there were traces of gunfire on the roof of the garage could indeed pose a threat to the General Assembly Hall.
Although the place is obscured by branches and leaves, it does not pose any bothering for snipers. Next, the sniper conducted a shooting test with Li Dimin's gun in the same position, and the results were almost identical to the actual situation, and there were no problems with the characteristics of the gun itself.
Combined with this evidence and testing, it can be determined that on the day of the northwesterly wind, Li Dimin fired a second shot on the roof in a south-easterly direction, in exactly the same direction as the glass of the City Hall.
When the final dust settled, everyone was surprised to find that this ** case, which had caused an uproar, was only caused by a mistake and a series of small probability coincidences, which made people can't help but sigh at the impermanence of the world and the uncertainty of life.
This incident had a considerable impact on the capital's security services. As a result, the first organs, the troops stationed in Beijing, and various security departments held a training camp of more than 1,000 people on the afternoon of 8 February.
The task force handed over the closing report to the prime minister, who was surprised by the result, and at the same time very angry, because the child's gun was taken from the communication room, and he thought that such a management method was too dangerous.
And the "culprit" Li Dimin, who was only a teenager, was not punished in any way. The task force could not punish the young junior high school student for his wrongdoing, but only gave him a serious critical education and let him go home.
However, this incident had a profound impact on ***. He was touched and began to strengthen research on gun control, and soon after launched the "Trial Measures of the People's Republic of China for the Administration of Firearm Registration", which began to carry out gun registration on a pilot basis.
In 1993, there was a shocking "super fight" incident in Matian Town, Hunan Province, where more than 5,000 people from two villages carried all kinds of **, including guns, ammunition, detonators, explosives and even artillery, and started a small war.
This incident has further boosted the process of gun control. Three years later, in 1996, China officially banned illegal gun possession, and no citizen was allowed to possess it privately
The "Great Hall of the People Case" is an important driving point of this policy.