How much can "hand debt" cost? According to zhongyuan.com, a man in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, lit Yang Xu while playing with a lighter, causing a fire in a used car market. The fire department dispatched 7 vehicles and 45 people to the scene and put out the fire after 40 minutes of emergency rescue. At present, the relevant situation is still under investigation and processing.
According to the report video, a large number of vehicles have been burned into "empty shells" at the scene, many exhibition halls and stores in the market have also been affected, and the roofs of some houses have collapsed. As mentioned in the above report, the fire accident caused the burning of more than 30 vehicles in the market. The loss of vehicles alone is expected to exceed one million yuan, with heavy losses.
Kang Wenlong, a firefighter at Shilibao fire rescue station in Miyun District, Beijing, said in an interview with CCTV news: "if Yang LiuXu is ignited at will to cause a fire, it will be subject to administrative punishment at least, and the corresponding responsibility will be investigated for the crime of fire and arson, and those who cause property losses will also bear the corresponding civil liability."
Some analysts believe that the man's behavior of setting fire to catkins is subjective intention, but the result of vehicle damage is difficult to be identified as intention. If the public prosecution finds that there is subjective intention, it needs to provide evidence. Therefore, the man may be convicted of fire. According to the relevant provisions of the criminal law of the people's Republic of China, if the fire caused by negligence causes direct property loss of more than 300000 yuan or burns more than 15 households and the total direct property loss is more than 250000 yuan, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention under the "minor circumstances" stipulated in paragraph 2 of Article 115 of the criminal law.
In this regard, a netizen left a message saying: "(the man) has something to do now. He is not free at all. His wallet has been hollowed out. He is in a lot of debt." Some netizens joked: "it's not adults who have become bears, it's bear children who have grown up."
In fact, similar accidents are common in the season of willow catkins flying from April to May every year. On April 24, 2021, a man in Shunyi District of Beijing ignited willow catkins with a lighter, causing a fire, resulting in varying degrees of damage to five cars, and was finally sentenced to administrative detention for 13 days; On May 1, 2017, Wu, 60, in Fangshan District, Beijing, burned Yang catkins with fire while cleaning the yard, ignited surrounding combustibles, and burned some factories and musical instruments of a nearby musical instrument factory. In 2018, Fangshan court ruled that Wu committed the crime of fire, sentenced him to two years' imprisonment and compensated 1.28 million yuan.
It is worth mentioning that, according to the latest announcement of the office of COVID-19 in Zhengzhou, in order to effectively block the spread of the epidemic, Zhengzhou is in the stage of implementing classified management in some areas. This may mean that the above-mentioned perpetrators who ignited Yang Xu due to "boredom" are probably the staff involved in the used car market.
In fact, affected by the epidemic, the whole used car market is still hovering in the continuous downward range, and the lack of business also makes "boredom" a microcosm of relevant practitioners.
According to the latest data of China Automobile Circulation Association, the trading volume of the national second-hand car market in March was 1318100, a year-on-year decrease of 15.99%; In the first quarter, the cumulative trading volume of the national second-hand car market was 3.8796 million, a year-on-year decrease of 1.93%.
"Affected by the epidemic, domestic second-hand car business enterprises temporarily suspended business in March, mainly focusing on key markets in Shanghai, Hebei, Shandong, Jilin, Jiangsu and other regions. Although other regions can operate normally, offline customer collection and trading volume are affected, resulting in a year-on-year downward trend in 24 of the country's 31 provinces." Li Xin, director of the Information Department of China Automobile Circulation Association, said.
In this context, the above-mentioned man who caused the accident was also ridiculed by some netizens as: "the benefactor of the second-hand car dealer", "the owner of the car shop tearfully sang thank you because of you..."
At present, the national second-hand car trading volume in April and may is still not optimistic. By monitoring the market trend in the first three weeks of April, China Automobile Circulation Association found that both the passenger flow and trading volume of the market had a significant correction compared with the same period last year. It is expected that the overall trading scale of second-hand cars in April will decline by more than 15% year-on-year, and the trading volume will be 1.26 million ~ 1.28 million vehicles.
For the judgment of the domestic used car market in May, Li Xin said: "at present, there is no obvious upward momentum, and further observation is needed."
Reporter Dong Tianyi