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Outrage in China over viral assault video

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8 years ago

April 8, 2016

A massive debate has sparked up in China after footage of an assault video in a Beijing hotel went viral.

Released CCTV footage which has been viewed over two billion times shows a woman being grabbed and dragged across a hotel corridor in the full view of bystanders who attempted to intervene in the incident.

The incident is being investigated by local police and it has prompted millions of posts on social media.

The hotel’s parent company has apologised over the incident and the Beijing police say they will get to the root of the matter.

The video was uploaded on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, earlier this week, by a woman identified by her online username, “Wanwan”.

Wanwan” said the man had approached her in the hotel corridor of Yitel Hotel and asked her which room she was in.

“I said ‘What do you want? I don’t know you’ and then he started to drag me away. He clutched my neck and face so I couldn’t breathe.

“When I tried to run downstairs, he grabbed me by the hair and dragged me towards the stairway.

“A staff member saw us but assumed it was a couple’s quarrel and did not intervene,” she said.

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