Chapter 769: All-Out (1)
took a photo with the prime minister and broadcast on the news, and many relatives and friends in China thought that Han Bo was a big leader and how nourishing he was abroad. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, Han Bo's life was not easy at all, Chinese citizen crimes and crimes against Chinese citizens were one after another, and even Chinese citizens living in South Africa called the police liaison team announced by the embassy to report to the police.
The pressure is huge, and I can only give it my all.
Sending off the Prime Minister and his accompanying delegation to South Africa, the Police Liaison Group entered a tense state of work.
Han Bo and Liu Xincun visited officials from the National Police, the General Directorate of Immigration, provincial police departments, and police stations in major cities, as well as prosecutors in charge of prosecuting several murders of Chinese; Qu Sheng took advantage of his nationality to go deep into the Chinese communities in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and other cities, and with the help of the Consulate General and enthusiastic overseas Chinese leaders, he visited the villagers of Fujian Province who were doing business and working in South Africa.
Learn about their work and life, remind them to raise their awareness of safety precautions, collect clues and evidence of the black sheep among the Chinese who have violated the law and committed crimes against their own people, and inquire about the whereabouts of the wanted criminals who have absconded to South Africa......
The dignified former deputy director of the Exit and Entry Administration Department of the Provincial Public Security Department is doing the work of an ordinary police officer here, and he really risked his life to wear South Africa's best-selling product--- body armor every time he goes out!
Considering that no one could answer the phone in the office and no one could send and receive documents, the embassy leaders simply arranged for Li Xiaolei, who was doing chores in the consular department, to help the police liaison group, and the embassy comrades half-jokingly said: The police liaison group is a "mom-and-pop shop" for the two.
This must not be the case at home, but it is normal to be stationed abroad.
Some small embassies and consulates, including the ambassador, may have only three or four people, and the ambassador's wife does not do any work, but it is really a secretary, a cook, and a gardener.
“…… Rest assured, I will keep it strictly confidential. ”
This is the twelfth call to the police since the opening of the "mom-and-pop shop", this police person is completely different from the previous one, mysterious and secretive, I have to tell my husband face to face, maybe the situation he wants to react to is really important.
Li Xiaolei put down her pen, raised her head to look at the time on the LCD clock, and said in the most gentle tone possible: "Mr. Wu, Counselor Han is not in the embassy, and he may have to come back at 6 o'clock in the afternoon." Why don't you wait a minute, I'll contact Counselor Han, and if it's convenient for Counselor Han, see if I can make an appointment. ”
"Okay, thanks, sorry for the trouble. ”
"You're welcome, I'll contact Counselor Han first, and you'll call in five minutes. ”
Hung up the phone and dialed her husband's mobile phone, Li Xiaolei seemed to be a different person, turning the pen with her left hand as she did when she was in school, holding the phone in her right hand and asking lazily: "Where are you and when can you come back?"
"I just got off the plane, waiting for the car from the Consulate General, and I can arrive at about half past four. ”
"There is a person who reported the case, a man, who listens to an accent like Jiangsu and Zhejiang, I emphasized several times that it will be kept secret, but he just refuses to say on the phone, he has to see you, he has to talk to you in person. ”
It is said that when the fellow sees the fellow, the tears are full of tears.
But in South Africa, you can't trust your fellow countrymen easily.
There is a saying in Joburg Chinatown, the villagers pit the fellows, and you don't negotiate the pits. This is not exactly your own people slandering your own people, there is indeed a certain truth, to be precise, there is a bloody lesson.
For example, the smugglers who were repatriated a few days before the prime minister's visit were arrested by the immigration bureau because they fell for Chinese immigration agents.
They are new to the country, they do not know English, and they are eager to obtain legal status, and some unscrupulous Chinese agents take advantage of this opportunity to boast and bewitch them, promising to help them apply for work visas, only to be deceived.
Not to mention that they encounter black agents who are not qualified, even if they are fully licensed, the level of immigration service fees is generally higher, and the work visa is about three times or more than that of the local white immigration company in South Africa.
Among them, many Chinese intermediaries actually do not handle it themselves, but entrust it to the local immigration company to handle it, which can be said to be the intermediary of the intermediary, earning the difference in the middle; and even some intermediaries disappear without a trace or cannot be contacted after collecting the deposit.
In contrast, most white intermediaries are more conscientious and responsible.
They will advise you on the type of visa application based on your situation, such as the recent work visa application is strict, and you may be advised to apply for a retirement visa, student visa, critical skills visa, companion visa, etc. If you don't know English, he will suggest that you find a friend who understands English or hire a part-time translator to help you consult.
As long as they take the order, they will help you appeal if you are denied a visa, and even help you sue the South African Department of Home Affairs in court.
The policeman was very cautious, Han Bo was not surprised, and muttered: "If you don't go out tomorrow, you ask him if he has time tomorrow, and if so, let him go to the embassy." ”
"Okay, be careful on the way back. ”
Now is not the time to be at home, Li Xiaolei decisively ended the call, and after waiting for about two minutes, the police called in again.
To her surprise, the policeman happened to be in the administrative capital, but he was reluctant to come to the embassy and wanted to meet her husband outside, who knew that he was a good person and a bad person, Li Xiaolei remembered a shopping mall she often went to, and made an appointment to meet there at 6 o'clock in the afternoon.
Han Bo came back faster than expected, and it was a coincidence that he had just returned to the embassy, and Qu Sheng also came back shortly after, and the "temporary workers" including Li Xiaolei, the four members of the police liaison team got together rarely.
"The arrangement in the mall is very good, the security is tight, you have to go through the security check, we go to two people, there should be no problem in terms of security. ”
Determined to go with Qu Sheng to see the policeman later, Han Bo pointed to a stack of documents on his desk and asked, "What is this, the verdict of Liu Xiaojie's case?"
"It's sentenced, her lover sent it yesterday, these are copies. ”
A woman who graduated from a bachelor's degree, only 26 years old this year, will have a good future if she stays in China, but she yearns for a better life, wants to make more money, and comes to South Africa with her new husband to work hard, but instead of making money, she meets robbers.
He was shot twice in the body, and although his life was saved, one leg was gone, and he could only use a wheelchair in the future, and he had to rely on crutches to stand up if he recovered well. What is even more unacceptable is that the suspect is a black man from Zimbabwe, who is poor and cannot be compensated, and her medical expenses are all donated by well-meaning Chinese.
This incident has a great impact in the Chinese community, and there is no hope of compensation, and the suspects can no longer go unpunished.
Qu Sheng subconsciously asked, "How was it judged?"
"The evidence was insufficient, and the judge found the defendant not guilty. ”
Li Xiaolei saw the photo of the victim lying on the hospital bed, sympathized with the victim's plight, and said solemnly: "Her husband wants to appeal, but he has no money to pay the lawyer's fees. Minister Liu believed that this lawsuit could not be lost, and once lost, those gangsters would be even more unscrupulous, and personally called several overseas Chinese leaders, calling on the Chinese community to have money and contribute powerfully. ”
Shootings are a common occurrence in Joburg, especially on holidays or days off. Basically every month, there are shootings. But 80% of the gun cases, that is, the mission cases, are not solved in the end.
After Liu Xiaojie was shot, the Consulate General in Joburg did a lot of work, and the Consul General personally went to the police station to negotiate. At the urging of the embassy and consulates, the Joburg police did not take the matter seriously and organized the police force to successfully arrest the murderer within three days, which is not easy to handle in South Africa.
I didn't expect that something went wrong in the prosecution and trial, and if the robbers were really allowed to go unpunished, wouldn't that send a signal to the outside world that it was okay to rob and shoot Chinese?
Han Bo frowned, picked up the verdict and flipped through it.
Formally, South Africa's criminal law is not codified, there is no penal code that systematically prescribes crimes, criminal responsibility and methods of pursuing or bearing criminal responsibility, only a large number of scattered provisions that prescribe crimes, criminal responsibility and methods of pursuing or bearing criminal responsibility.
For example, the Prevention of Organized Crime Act, the Prevention of Corruption Act, the Domestic Violence Act, the Drugs and Drug Dealing Act, the Explosives Act, and so on.
Moreover, criminal proceedings in South Africa are heavily influenced by the United Kingdom, and adopt an adversarial trial model, but there is no jury like that of Britain and the United States.
The judge does not actively participate in the litigation, but acts as a neutral adjudicator, passively following the active litigation activities of both parties, judging whether the parties have violated the relevant rules in the process of presenting evidence and debating, and making a judgment on the case accordingly. As in common law criminal proceedings, a very distinctive verdict is formed.
Whether it is the adequacy of the reasoning, the thoroughness of the analysis, the breadth of the involvement, or even the style of writing, it is similar to the common law system. The judgment contains not only the argumentation of the facts and the analysis of the law, but also the quotation of the previous judgment and the theoretical analysis of a certain issue.
The judges' differing opinions are reflected in the verdict, and conclusions are reached through inductive reasoning. The most important and indispensable part of the judgment is the reasons for the judgment. It will be made by the individual judge, not the trial chamber, and the majority opinion will serve as a precedent.
The judge of the court of second instance handed down a voluminous and complex judgment of 78 pages in content. It's not just a legal document, it's a superb legal paper!
Ignoring the previous discussions, Han Bo only looked at the different opinions of the judges and the content of the final verdict.
Qu Sheng is very good at English but not a law major, Liu Xincun knows a little about South African law, but his legal level is also not comparable to Han Bo, a master of law, and the two sat on the side and whispered, exchanging the progress of the work in the past few days.
"Although I didn't find out the true identity of 'Brother Ming', the people who asked all said that they didn't know, didn't remember, and hadn't seen it, but there was a small boss from Minqing who looked obviously wrong, he should know a little, but he didn't want to say it or didn't dare to say it, what about your side, can the airport help?"
"There was not much progress on our side, and Counselor Han found a few people, and they began to say that they could not access the surveillance video without conclusive evidence, and they could not investigate the list of passengers who were on the plane. Counselor Han approached the Immigration Bureau and asked the Immigration Bureau to come forward, but the Ministry of the Interior was fighting corruption, and the General Directorate of Bituo had a new director of the immigration department, and the new officials took up three fires, and they had to track down all the work visas issued in recent months, and they had no time to worry about our business. ”
"Anti-corruption, Federer is down?"
Finally made a friend who could help with errands, but that guy was too angry, Liu Xincun subconsciously glanced at Han Bo, and said with a wry smile: "The Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Ministry of the Interior confirmed that the Anti-Corruption Bureau confiscated more than 600 documents from the visa department involving 'fraudulent work visas through forged documents', at least half of which involved Chinese. If it is found that the letter from the Ministry of Labour is forged, all of them will be entered into the Home Office's 'blacklist' system. When those people leave the country, their visas will be invalidated by the immigration office at the airport. ”
"It has nothing to do with us, and there will be no mass repatriation?"
"In any case, the visa was issued by the immigration department, and after the news spread, all the people involved went into hiding, and it was not so easy to catch them, and large-scale repatriation would not happen, but the impact was not small. ”
"What impact?" Qu Sheng asked.
"In an interview with reporters, the newly appointed director said, 'Some Chinese and Indians and Pakistanis tirelessly use forged documents every day to defraud work permits, and this kind of behavior is intolerable!'