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Son of famous Chinese musician accused of assault

China.org.cn, September 8, 2011

• "Who dares call 110" is set to be this year's "My father is Li Gang."

  On Tuesday night, two young men driving two luxury cars assaulted a couple in front of their 5-year-old son, who was pleading for them to stop at the gate of a residential community, Haidian district.

  The BMW without a number of plate and an Audi with the plate number of JinO 00888.[Weibo.com]

  Witnesses said the two cars included a BMW without a number of plate and an Audi with the plate number of JinO 00888, and one of the young men dared anyone to call the 110 police emergency number.

  The incident was posted on Sina Weibo and aroused great attention among Chinese internet users. The original post had been forwarded thousands of times, that it cannot be traced.

  The husband was injured and then sent to the hospital for treatment, said the Weibo post.

  According to Xinhua News Agency, it was verified that the driver of the BMW, 15-year-old, didn't have the driving license. He is the son of Li Shuangjiang, a renowned singer and vocal music educationalist in China.

  The Internet has erupted with the speculation that this latest incident of youngsters who believe they have power and privilege, and therefore are above the law, will dwarf the "Li Gang" scandal, in which, Li Qiming, son of local official Li Gang (deputy director of the police department in a city in Hebei Province) ran over two college students, killing one and injuring another.

  The details of the incident, such as the reason the pair beat the couple, are still unknown, and Zi Xiangdong, spokesman for Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau said police have not collected enough information, and cannot reveal more.

  Web users on Sina Weibo alleged that a parking permit of the Great Hall of the People and a submachine gun were found in one car. Others claimed they had traced the Audi's number plate to an official car belonging to Xu Yuegang, director of the National Tax Bureau of Shanxi Province.

  The tax bureau denied the claim."It's not our car...The number plate belongs to the provincial public security department," an official from the tax bureau said Wednesday.

  After contacting the Shanxi Provincial Public Security department, a staff member working at the vehicle administrative office said that the car is from the bureau of re-education through labor administration.

  According to the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau's website, the Audi has violated traffic regulations 36 times in Beijing since 2008.

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