Chinese student complains police failed to investigate knife attack where ‘very powerful people’ were involved
- Shenyang University postgraduate says he was advised to accept compensation to drop the case after he was assaulted by classmates
- Police officers placed under investigation following complaint that they had sat on the case for months
Police in northeast China are being investigated for their alleged failure to investigate a knife attack on a student.
The student, named Wang, said he needed to use crutches after the attack, and complained that he had been warned that there were “very powerful” people involved on the other side. He also said that he was advised to accept compensation to drop the case.
The student, identified as a second-year postgraduate at Shenyang University in Liaoning province, went public about the case on Wednesday with a social media post headlined “please save me”.
Wang claimed in the Weibo post that, because of a dispute with two women classmates over a scholarship, he was assaulted by the pair and another student armed with a knife in September.
But despite going to the police soon after the attack the investigation went nowhere for three months.
The case was filed in the Taochang police station in Dadong district, but Wang said the officers failed to act and the university asked him to help “cover things up”.