The Chinese Zhuhai Sports Complex’s doors were closed. Outside, the facility was in shadow, as were the premises around it.
It was here, hours before, where dozens of people were killed when a man drove an SUV into a crowd. Many more were injured.
When the BBC arrived, just security personnel appeared to be moving around behind the fence and had been instructed to watch the writers.
One approached us asking:” Are you reporters”? When I asked why he wanted to know, he replied:” Oh just to understand the situation”.
He and a partner began calling us while taking pictures of us.
Individuals passed by the walls to see the fallout. However, there was a group of about a few people who were more curious in us.
A people started calling to the others:” Appearance, immigrants, europeans”.
Immediately a gentleman who was with her was violently interrupting our monitoring, grabbing me and shouting.
Local Communist Party officials frequently organize groups of functionaries pretending to be angry locals who have been assigned the task of preventing any protection of foreign reporters when sensitive events like this occur in China.
Invariably it does n’t stop the stories, it just makes China look bad.
Crowds of these devoted residents were gathered outside his original community home after his death last month. Any blogger who arrived was surrounded, shoved, and verbally misused.
Premier Li’s passing was concerning for the party because it occurred suddenly and unexpectedly, as well as because he was the party’s final progressive wing member. It demonstrated how tightly stacked the group is now with President Xi Jinping’s supporters.
The similar things happen, however, even in much smaller situations.
We traveled to a Shanghai shopping mall next quarter where a man had stabbed people to death at random.
Within hours of this terrible event occurring, any evidence had been removed from the whole area. By the day after, the store was up and running again as standard: no police crime scene tape, no flowers for the deceased.
You get the point, though, that many of these bizarre attack on the neighborhood are replicative in nature. Tuesday’s assault is not an oddity, though it is surprising for its dying toll.
However, some authorities these occasionally need these terrible things to vanish as quickly as possible.
Caravans of police were dispatched to better manage the situation hours after our fight outside the Zhuhai strike site.
People gathered to light candles in honor of the deceased, and videos of blood-giving lines were visible in videos posted on social media.
President Xi has urged officials to deal with the problems in society to stop this from occurring repeatedly.
But, suddenly, China is left wondering what has driven people to such inconceivable despair. The solutions to this one are incredibly challenging to come by.