Police probe 2 foreigners in alleged slapping

By Yang Meiping | February 7, 2014, Friday |

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Shanghai police are investigating two foreigners who allegedly slapped a 6-year-old Chinese boy at Pudong International Airport yesterday.

A witness said the boy had been playing with a trolley in the baggage claim area when it scraped against another pushed by a foreign woman, who then slapped the boy.

The witness, who gave her surname as Tang, said the slap was so hard that it knocked one of the boy’s teeth out and his face was swollen.

Tang posted two pictures on her microblog, showing the foreigners and the boy’s red and swollen right cheek.

The boy and Tang were in a tourist group returning from Maldives and going on to Wuxi in Jiangsu Province, Tang said.

The boy’s parents and other group members quarreled with the woman, as well as her male friend who turned up later, according to Tang.

“The woman said she would like to pay the boy 50 yuan (US$8) to settle the dispute,” Tang said.

Police were called and they took the foreigners, the boy and his parents to the station at the airport, according to Tang.

A staff member of the French consulate general in Shanghai also went to the police station, suggesting that the foreigners were French, Tang said.

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