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  • 2022-06-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Surveillance video does not show Tangshan attack (en)
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  • After an assault on a group of women in the northeastern Chinese city of Tangshan sparked outrage, a graphic video of a car driving over a person surfaced in social media posts claiming it showed surveillance footage of the attack. The claim is false; the video was filmed in the southern city of Guangzhou in October 2020, more than one year before the Tangshan attack. The CCTV footage of the assault that happened at a barbecue restaurant in Tangshan is brutal, reads a simplified-Chinese tweet posted on June 22. The video appears to show three people getting out of a car and arguing with the driver of another vehicle. The driver then tries to flee, driving over one of the people. A woman narrating the video says: The girl let out a shrill scream at that point, and her legs struggled several times in the air. Then, after the car had backed up a few metres, he drove back and ran over the girl a second time. A violent assault on a group of women at a restaurant in Tangshan in northeastern China's Hebei province on June 10 sparked nationwide outrage . The attack renewed debate about sexual harassment and gender-based violence in China, where conversation around women's rights has grown in recent years in the face of a patriarchal society, internet censorship and patchy legal support. A screenshot, taken on June 27, 2022, of the misleading post. The video was viewed more than 180,000 times in similar posts on Twitter, including here and here . However, the footage does not show the Tangshan assault. Guangzhou attack A reverse image search on Baidu found similar footage in a news report from October 16, 2020 by Chinese state news site KNews. The simplified-Chinese news article is headlined: Man who had a dispute on the road rammed into someone after drinking and driving. What he did later was even more outrageous. KNews reported that the driver ran over a woman before reversing over her in the incident on October 15, 2020 at the entrance of an unnamed hotel apartment on Donghuan Avenue in Puning, Jieyang. The woman's husband attempted to stop the driver from fleeing, but was dragged hundreds of metres by the car window, it said. The woman and her husband were both treated in hospital, while the drunk driver was detained, it added. Below is a comparison of the video in the misleading post (left) and the video in the KNews report (right): A screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading post (left) and the video in the KNews report (right). Guangdong Radio and Television also reported the attack on October 18, 2020. AFP found no credible reports that the victims of the Tangshan attack were ran over by a car, as of June 29. (en)
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