A 20-year-old ethnically Chinese man named Hu Congliang (胡聪亮) has been reportedly murdered in Modena, a city in Northern Italy, on November 26.
On Weibo, the news was published by Danlan.org, China’s leading online LGBT news platform with the headline: “Ethnic Chinese ‘Comrade’ Harmed in Italy.” The Chinese word ‘comrade’ (同志) is also slang for homosexuals.
Danlan reports that Italian police have questioned and detained five Chinese minors in relation to the murder, and that among them, a 17-year-old man is the main suspect in suffocating and killing Hu Congliang. He used to be in a relationship with the victim.
Hu Congliang lived in Italy together with his parents, who were both working there.
According to the Straits Times, the 17-year-old suspect previously tried to break up with Hu, who then refused and allegedly threatened his boyfriend to publicise intimate photos he had of him.
The underage suspect then went to Hu’s residence with four friends, where they allegedly suffocated him with a pillow and put his remains in a suitcase under the bed. As they left they told Hu’s mother, who was present in the house, that her son had left earlier.
Italian local media reported that the mother found her son’s remains a couple of hours later.
Murder cases involving (ethnically) Chinese in foreign countries often make headlines in China. Earlier this year, the brutal murder of two Chinese sisters in Japan also set social media abuzz.
Another case, in which a Chinese woman was reportedly killed by the ex-boyfriend of her roommate in Japan is still receiving a lot of media attention in China. The suspect, a 25-year-old Chinese exchange student, is to be put on trial in December.
By Manya Koetse
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