Murder of a Vietnamese student in St. Petersburg

On the night of October 14, 2004, a student of the Leningrad Polytechnic University Wu An Tuan was killed in the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg.

Wu An Tuan was attacked at around 11:30 pm in the square at the intersection of X-ray and Leo Tolstoy streets. A group of teenagers dressed in all black attacked the foreigner (according to eyewitnesses, there were about 20 of them).

A 14-year-old teenager kicked a student in the stomach. The victim fell to the ground, and then the attacker stabbed Wu An Tuan several times. Another participant in the attack inflicted at least 4 blows on the Vietnamese with a sharpened screwdriver. Three more teenagers began to inflict multiple blows with knives each on different parts of the body.

One participant in the attack hit the Vietnamese with a glass bottle on the head, the rest were beaten with their hands, feet, and one of them with a soldier's belt on various parts of the body. In total, the victim received 37 stab wounds.

The attackers fled the scene. The death of a Vietnamese student came from a large loss of blood.

at the scene all night worked The investigative-operational group . Several teenagers suspected of involvement in the murder were detained. Most of the young people were released without charge.

The next day friends and fellow students of the murdered person held a protest action .

Sources

• Timchenko S. Death on a birthday // Independent newspaper. October 15, 2004.
• A student from Vietnam was killed in the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg // saint-petersburg.ru/show/116796/
• Vietnamese student murder suspect released // Business Petersburg. 2004.18 October
• In St. Petersburg, a criminal case on the murder of a student from Vietnam was sent to the court // Official website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. 2006. January 23.
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