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Security footage showing how a man in a raincoat attacks a mother and daughter down the hallway of a residential building has gone viral on Chinese social media over the past two days.
The horrific incident happened on July 6th at 18:19. The footage shows a woman and her daughter just returning home. The mother can be seen looking up to the camera. As they stand in the hallway – the apartment door already open, – a man wearing a red raincoat suddenly storms down the stairs and violently grabs the mother, dragging her inside. Within a matter of mere seconds, the man returns and also grabs the girl, dragging her inside as she screams.
After the man slams the door shut, screams can be heard from inside the apartment.
The video led to a lot of consternation online, with some rumors circulating that the incident had happened in Guangning in Guangdong.
Local Guangning police then issued a notice that they had received many calls about the incident from concerned netizens, but that it had not occurred in Guangdong.
Internet sleuths managed to closely inspect the phone numbers of the wall advertisement in the hallway shown in the video, and identified the place where it had happened as Laiyang in Shandong Province.
Could've been a horror movie, but unfortunately it's real. This woman and daughter were attacked by a man in raincoat on July 6. The video went trending this week and netizens figured out it happened in Laiyang due to the phone numbers on the wall. Viewer discretion advised. pic.twitter.com/soiofMWLsk
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) July 12, 2022
On July 12, reports came out that the incident had indeed happened in Laiyang. Police confirmed that the man had been identified as the woman’s ex-husband. The couple divorced in June of this year. On July 6, the man had hidden at a corner of the hallway and had waited to attack. After dragging his ex-wife and daughter inside the home, he later asked his wife to remarry him and reportedly raped her and then left the apartment.
The man has been arrested for home invasion and rape charges. News of his arrest was viewed over 480 million times on Weibo on Tuesday (#将母女拖拽进屋的雨衣男已被拘留#).
Both the woman and her daughter are now safe. It is unclear how the security camera video ended up on social media, but the news about the video was also shared by an account run by All China Women’s Federation. In their shared post, they drew attention to the problem of the problem of violence after divorce.
By Manya Koetse
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