On July 20, The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) learned from multiple sources that in the incident of a man "dragging a girl in a toilet room", the man involved was taken criminal compulsory measures on suspicion of indecent assault.
The man involved and the dragged woman came to the bar with others on the day of the incident, but the two were not male and female friends.
The dragged woman is a minor.
Earlier media reports said that the man involved and the dragged woman were boyfriends and girlfriends.
After the incident, the bar has been closed for rectification.
A 29-second video circulated on the Internet showed that at about 11:40 p.m. on July 16, a young woman ran out of the toilet after breaking free from a man with a tattoo on her arm.
The man followed closely, pulled the woman's coat off, then grabbed her hair and dragged her into the compartment.
At this time, a woman in black walked out of the other compartment, kicked the door first, and then pushed the door open together with others, and the dragged woman ran away from the bathroom.
The man was dragged out of the cubicle, and it was suspected that he was accompanied by the action of lifting his pants.
On July 20, the "Ping An Zhongmu" WeChat official account issued a police report saying that at 23:59 on July 16, our bureau received the report that a woman was forcibly dragged by a man in a bar in Guandu Street, Zhongmu County.
After investigation and investigation by our bureau, the man Li (male, 27 years old, from Kaifeng, Henan) was suspected of a criminal offense.
The case is being further processed.
The incident happened in the max club bar in Zhongmu County.
According to a report by Upstream News on July 19, after the incident, witnesses called the police. When the men and women involved were investigated by the police, they said that they were boyfriends and girlfriends, and then the police told them to leave.
On July 19, the surveillance video attracted public attention, and the police again summoned the men and women involved to investigate whether they were boyfriend and girlfriend.
Police are also studying how men's violent behaviour should be characterized.
On July 20, The Paper learned from authoritative sources that the man involved and the dragged woman went from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou to play.
The four were two men and two women, but the man involved and the dragged woman were not boyfriend and girlfriend. The dragged woman was 16 years old.
The two quarreled in the partition, with the woman accusing the man of exposing his genitals.
The woman in black who kicked the door in the video is the second woman in the group.
After the case attracted attention, at present, the man involved has been taken criminal compulsory measures on suspicion of indecent assault.
According to the Law on the Protection of Minors, operators of commercial singing and dancing entertainment venues, bars, Internet access service business venues and other venues that are not suitable for minors' activities shall not allow minors to enter.
Operators shall set signs prohibiting or restricting entry of minors in prominent positions.
For those who are difficult to determine whether they are minors, they should be required to show their identity documents.
Peng Mei News noticed that in this incident, the relationship between the man involved and the dragged woman sparked discussions among netizens.
Will the relationship between the parties in the incident affect the outcome of the judgment?
Ding Jinkun, a lawyer from Shanghai Dabang Law Firm, pointed out that legally, whether two people are friends or strangers, women have the right to act autonomously and sexually, so forcibly dragging the woman to the bathroom is an attack. Suspected of picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
If the man touches the woman in the bathroom and violates the woman's body, he is suspected of forced indecency.
If the man wants to rape in the bathroom, he is charged with rape.
The Paper reporter Lv Xinwen intern Su Ying