A PREGNANT woman who was injured in a restaurant brawl with public servants from the Luohu subbureau of social security has refuted claims by the city social security bureau that the government employees were not responsible for assaulting the woman and her friend, the Daily Sunshine reported.
The woman, identified only by her family name Yang, suffered bruises to her right arm and displayed signs of miscarriage when she tried to stop the brawl between her friend and a former employee of the government agency identified as Lin on Shangbu Road North 10 days ago.
Lin was accused of sexually assaulting Yang s friend, identified as Jiao, in the hallway of the restaurant, the paper said.
I was returning to the room where I was having dinner with some friends but was stopped in the hallway by him, Jiao claimed. He smelt of alcohol and tried to touch my breast by holding me from behind.
Jiao told the paper that her shouts for help attracted the attention of friends who stopped Lin. I noticed that he was bleeding a little in the head at that moment [when Jiao s friends pushed Lin away from her]. His friends rushed out from a neighboring room and fought with my friends, she said.
Jiao said she saw a man from the other room holding Yang firmly by the arm as she was trying to stop the fight. And I did see him attempt to kick her, she said.
Jiao and Yang said a waitress told them after the men had left that they were public servants with the Luohu subbureau of social security.
The fight stopped after a waiter shouted that he had called police, the paper said. The city s social security bureau told a press conference Thursday that Lin had left the Luohu subbureau last year. He was no longer an agency employee. The dinner was a private party between Lin and other employees of the agency, said Huang Xianfeng, spokesperson of the city s social security bureau.
Huang confirmed that eight employees including a vice director of the Luohu subbureau were at the scene of the brawl.
Zeng Bo, vice director of the Luohu subbureau, denied that his men were involved in the fight. We were just trying to stop them and we didn t assault anybody, Zeng said at the press conference.
I was the last to leave the dining room that night and saw Lin with blood on him, Zeng said. My men tried to stop them from beating Lin and took him to hospital. I swear with my integrity, he said.
However, Yang said a number of public servants at the subbureau and a senior official had visited her in hospital after the incident, saying they wanted to resolve the matter privately. They told me they were government employees and they hoped the matter wouldn t get the attention of media, Yang told the paper.
Yang said she and her friends later refused the request after hearing a spouse of one of the public servants had verbally abused them at the Qingshuihe police station.
An investigation is continuing. (SD News)
