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On August 5, a video of "AWoman releases cockroaches in communityThe video went viral online and sparked heated discussions among netizens.

On August 6, the reporter contacted the owners and property management of Tianyangcheng Community in Langfang City, Hebei Province, and confirmed the authenticity of the above video. The woman released cockroaches on August 4. After receiving the owner's feedback, the property management company organized personnel to disinfect the scene on the 5th.

The video shows a middle-aged woman in a yellow T-shirt being filmed by a witness releasing live cockroaches in a community flowerbed. The witness approached and asked, "Are you from this community?" But the woman did not respond, but continued to knock the small box on the stone slab to make the cockroaches crawl out of the small box. Seeing that the woman did not answer, the witness continued to ask, "Are you from this community?"After releasing the animals, the woman put away the boxes and asked the witness, "Why did you take this video?" In the video, the woman had a total of 5 boxes. Except for the box in her hand, the other 4 boxes were empty.

The reporter contacted an owner of Tianyangcheng Community. The owner said that everyone in the owner group was discussing this matter. The incident happened on August 4. The owners were angry about the woman's behavior of releasing cockroaches. At the same time, they were also worried about the hygiene problems caused by cockroaches, so they reported this situation to the property company.

On August 6, a property management staff member of the community said in an interview with reporters: "The community property management has organized staff to carry out disinfection. Other situations need to be reported to the property management leader." The reporter contacted the official hotline of Longhu Property Management for more details. The staff said that the situation had been received and they would arrange for staff to contact the reporter. As of press time, the reporter has not received any relevant response.

Lawyer: If it is an invasive species, releasing it at will may be a crime

In recent years, various news reports on releasing animals into the wild have emerged one after another, arousing social concern. Luo Xiang, a professor at the School of Criminal Justice of China University of Political Science and Law and a well-known legal blogger, once conducted a legal analysis on releasing animals into the wild. A new crime added to the Criminal Law Amendment (XI) is called "illegal introduction, release, and abandonment of alien invasive species", which mentions the issue of releasing cockroaches into the wild. If the person releasing the cockroaches into the wild is a southern cockroach, whose scientific name is "American cockroach", which is an invasive species, this behavior may be suspected of a crime.

Zhong Zhiyuan, a lawyer at Hunan Rujin Law Firm, said that in recent years,There are many cases of environmental damage and economic losses caused by releasing animals into the wild. Article 344 of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of my country stipulates that if anyone violates national regulations and illegally introduces, releases or discards invasive alien species, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall be fined or fined alone if the circumstances are serious.Lawyer Zhong believes that ignorance of the law cannot be used as a basis for not punishing the release of invasive wild species. Law enforcement agencies need to achieve the purpose of education through cases and reports. "Punishment should serve as a warning to future generations and prevent similar behavior from happening again."

Source: Xiaoxiang Morning News