Three of the detained rioters in Dong Tam commune of Hanoi's My Duc district (Photo: VTV)Hanoi (VNA) – The Hanoi People’s Court isscheduled to open on September 7 the first-instance trial of 29 people involvedin the murder of three policemen in Dong Tam commune of the city’s My Ducdistrict.
All the defendants are residents of Hoanh andDong Mit hamlets of Dong Tam commune. Among them, 25 face the charge of“murder” while the four remainders are accused of “resisting on-duty officers”.
According to the procuracy’s indictment, despitebeing well aware that the land lot at the Senh field of Dong Tam commune wasused for defence purposes as confirmed by the Hanoi Inspectorate and theGovernment Inspectorate, in 2013, Le Dinh Kinh (born in 1936, a resident inHoanh hamlet) and some others set up a so-called “group of consensus” with theaim of re-occupying and dividing the land lot among themselves.
They frequently incited locals to filecomplaints about the Dong Tam administration’s land management and use, usedsocial networks to spread the false information that the Senh field belongs toDong Tam commune and called on local people to “struggle to keep the land”.
Upon learning that the Hanoi Department ofPublic Security coordinated with the air defence – air force service of theMinistry of National Defence to deploy personnel to protect the force buildingfencing walls around the Mieu Mon airfield on the Senh field, Kinh and hisaccomplices bought weapons with the aim of attacking the authorised force.
In early January 2020, learning that the policewere about to come to Dong Tam, Kinh and many others gathered at his house onJanuary 6, 7 and 8 to plot a fight against the police.
When the police arrived at Hoanh village inearly morning on January 9, the group used hand-made weapons to attack thepolice force. Although the authorised force used loudspeakers to repeatedly askthem to stop such acts, the rioters refused and resisted even more fiercely,with some throwing grenades at the police.
While moving to arrest the rioters, three policeofficers fell into a pit near Kinh’s house. Some of the rioters poured gasolineinto the pit and set fire, killing the three policemen.
As the authorised force broke into the house andfound Kinh holding a grenade and calling on others to resist, they decided toshoot him dead.
Investigation results show that Le Dinh Kinh andfour others were the masterminds, who both directed others to commit anddirectly engaged in the murder of the policemen.
However, as Kinh had died, he was not includedin the case./.
VNA
