- Some internet users claim to show the beginning of an insurgency in China, images to support it.
- These videos show civilians attacking police officers on a bridge.
- They were filmed this Friday on a bridge connecting the provinces of Hubei (cradle of the coronavirus epidemic) and Jiangxi. But the exact causes of these tensions remain to be confirmed.
Certain Chinese citizens would let their anger burst out against the government and the authorities for its management of the epidemic of coronavirus?
This is what suggests a Facebook post shared nearly 3,000 times, and showing several videos of scuffles on a bridge between the police and civilians - for some people wearing protective masks - sometimes very reassembled, some overturning a van of police, others hitting the police with their shields.
“It is heating up in China …… According to certain reports, videos of violent protests in Hubei province in China are starting to appear (and disappear very quickly) from Chinese social networks. The police are targeted, the population seems to be turned against the authorities, officers are lynched and beaten by the crowd, police vehicles destroyed, reinforcements are being deployed in different cities, "says the legend illustrating these images.
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If these images are used in many countries, they are also found on the Telegram application in a group of Chinese Internet users with nearly 30,000 members.
They also appear in an English-speaking Twitter thread posted online on March 27, which talks about tensions on the Jiujiang Yantze bridge, linking the provinces of Hubei (where the coronavirus epidemic started) and Jiangxi.
Here is another view of Hubei residents flipping over a Jiangxi police van.
What's nice about this view is that it clearly shows the Hubei police simply watching, if not helping, the Hubei civilians destroy Jiangxi police vehicles. pic.twitter.com/ueVKHbGxB5
The inscription visible on the police shields corresponds well to that of the shields used by the police forces of Jiujiang (in Jiangxi), as can be seen in this photo published by the media East Day last January. We also recognize the Jiujiang Yantze bridge on an aerial photo taken by the agency Chine nouvelle in January 2019.
Clashes reported in different media
Various Chinese media have also reported on these clashes, confirming that they took place on this bridge. "An investigation is underway in Hubei in Jiangxi about an incident that occurred on Friday at the border between the two provinces. Jiujiang authorities point out that the reality of the facts differs from the rumors relayed online - notably that claiming that the Jiujiang police attacked the police in Huangmei [a province of Hubei] - and that investigations are continuing to clarify the situation ", asserts the Global Times .
"Witnesses say that the Jijujiang police installed a dam at the entrance to the bridge, near Huangmei, which would have triggered the incident. […] Residents of Huangmei who want to go back to work now that the containment has been lifted must take a train to Jiujiang, with no station on their side, ”continues the Global Times .
Since March 25 and the lifting of containment, the residents of Hubei can indeed, for the first time in two months, leave their region - provided they have a medical certificate.
"Tension quickly increased and Hubei police also had trouble leaving with their counterparts before the situation returned to normal during the day. But these clashes clearly show that the inhabitants of Hubei, the cradle of the epidemic, have become outcasts in the rest of the country, ”finally noted our colleagues from RFI.
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