系列“杀人预告”震惊韩国，警方已逮捕59人

2023-08-07 09:08

据韩联社报道，韩国警察厅当地时间8月7日通报，自首尔市新林站、京畿道城南市书岘站无差别行凶事件发生后，网上接连出现“杀人预告”的帖子。

图源：韩联社

截至当天7时，警方确认网上共有187篇“杀人预告”帖子，逮捕59名相关发帖人，并拘留其中3人。

South Korean police said Monday they have tracked down 59 people in connection with online murder threat posts across the country amid concerns of copycat crimes following a recent stabbing rampage at a department store south of Seoul.

根据韩国警察厅的通报，59名被逮捕的嫌疑人中有34名是不足18岁的未成年人，其中还有多名不足受刑事处罚的14岁以下青少年。一些人供述称发帖“只是开玩笑”“博取关注”。

被捕者中有一名14岁的男孩。据警方声明，这名少年曾发帖称，他明天将在地铁站外杀人。被抓捕后，男孩告诉警察他无意杀人，“只是无聊，把它当作笑话发布了”。

Among those arrested was a 14-year-old boy in the Seoul suburb of Hanam, the police said in a statement on Saturday.

He told the police that he had no intention of killing anyone but “was just bored and posted it as a joke,” according to the statement.

▍韩国接连发生“无差别持刀行凶”

类似“杀人预告”帖子自上月12日新林站行凶案后时有出现。但本月3日书岘站行凶事件后开始猛增，引发民众恐慌。

8月3日，韩国京畿道城南市当天下午发生“无差别行凶案”，导致至少14人受伤，其中有5人被撞伤，9人被刀刺伤。

据悉，当天一名23岁的崔（Choi）姓男子驾驶一辆车冲上人行道，撞伤5人。随后，该男子又在地铁站附近的一家百货商店内持刀行凶，造成9人受伤。该男子目前已被抓捕。当地媒体称，崔某行凶时“不分对象，无差别行凶”。

Many of the arrests came days after 14 people were injured in an episode in Seongnam, a city southeast of Seoul, that the authorities said was being treated as an “act of terror.” The assailant in that case drove a car onto a sidewalk near a subway station, injuring five people, then went into the station and stabbed a further nine.

3日随机行凶事件发生后，韩国警察在地铁站待命

7月21日，韩国首尔地铁新林站（Sillim Station）附近附近也发生一起持刀行凶案件，造成1人死亡、3人受伤送医。据调查，嫌疑人赵善自称因生活困难，想“让其他人感到痛苦”，偷窃了行凶工具后前往地铁站附近进行随机袭击。

Another stabbing attack in Seoul on July 21 left one person dead and three others injured. The latest arrests in connection with the murder threats are part of police efforts to restore the public’s sense of security.

▍民间产生恐慌，防身用品销量上升

据韩国警方透露，“杀人预告”帖子来自韩国多个地区，涉及学校、机场、地铁站、车站等人流密集场所。

加上之前发生的多起恶性犯罪事件，韩国民间产生巨大恐慌，防身用品需求飙升。据韩国电商平台方面透露，在7月22日到8月3日的12天内，防身用品销量同比增加123%，比上月同期增加近400%。

Gmarket, an e-commerce platform, saw sales of self-defense products increase 243 percent between July 22, the day after the Sillim Station attack, and last Thursday, compared to the same period a year ago.
电商平台Gmarket的防身产品销量从7月22日（新林地铁站袭击事件发生的第二天）到8月3日，与去年同期相比增长了243%。

Sales of self-defense products surged on another e-commerce website, 11st, including the tactical baton, sales of which jumped 200 percent in the last two weeks year-on-year. Pepper spray sales spiked 470 percent and covert stab vests saw sales increase 181 percent during the same period.
在另一家电商平台11st上，防身产品的销量激增，其中甩棍销量在过去两周同比增长了200%，辣椒喷雾销量飙升470%，防穿刺背心销量增长181%。