SHENZHEN Procuratorate has approved the arrest of a Chinese Australian who allegedly attacked a man in an elevator in a residential compound in Nanshan District on Nov. 13.
The victim, Wang Yang, suffered minor injuries in the attack, the Daily Sunshine reported yesterday.
The suspect, Liu Zinan, claimed he had long been suffering from high levels of noise made by a household upstairs from his apartment.
In the early hours of Nov. 13, Liu ran into Wang in an elevator on his way downstairs to call police to complain about the noise, according to the procuratorate.
Liu mistook him for a member of the noisy family and started beating him in an attack that lasted almost five minutes.
After the attack, Liu dragged Wang out of the elevator and went home.
Nanshan police detained Liu on the day of the incident, holding him for 10 days and fining him 500 yuan (US$75), the paper said.
However, Nanshan police said the incident was not a criminal act as Wang s injuries were rather minor according to an injury appraisal.
Wang refused to accept the appraisal and applied for a second opinion from the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau.
The bureau s decision was that Liu could be charged with intentional injury.
Liu has been under fire since a video of the attack, recorded by a camera in the elevator, started spreading on the Internet, the paper said.
Netizens searched Liu s background online, saying that Liu s father had high social status.
Some said that Liu s uncle, who claimed to be a public security official in Beijing, had called Wang to settle the matter privately and threatened to punish media that covered the case.
(Martin Li)
