Meeting to define the scope of incinerators in the name of "tea boss" Chang Xingshen, who broke the table and turned it over and was sentenced to prison

Internet celebrity "Tea Boss" Chang Xingshen protested several times in famous incinerator-related meetings. Chang Xingshen used a microphone to knock on the conference table that separated the crowd, turned the rostrum over, and tore up the environmental impact assessment meeting materials on the table. The Environmental Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit and refused to mediate. The Nantou District Court sentenced him to the crime of damaging items in charge of civil servants in their duties, and he was sentenced to 4 months in prison.

The Nantou County Government plans to build an incinerator in Mingjian Township. A total of 24 meetings to define the scope of the second-stage environmental impact assessment were held from January to May this year. The local self-rescue association protested every time. On April 15, a farmer surnamed Lin broke the conference table during an extended meeting and was sentenced to 2 months in prison by the Nantou District Court for damaging items in charge of civil servants. Chang Xingshen was also recently charged with the same crime and was sentenced to 2 months in prison each, and the combined sentence is 4 months.

The verdict pointed out that during the third extended meeting on April 14, Chang Xingshen was dissatisfied with the chairman's failure to accept the petition for protest and hit the conference table several times with the microphone in his hand, causing damage to the table. In addition, during the sixth extended meeting on May 27, he was also dissatisfied that his protest petition was not accepted. He rushed directly to the rostrum, overturned the chairman's table, and destroyed the environmental impact assessment meeting materials and nameplates.

The Environmental Protection Bureau was represented by Chief Secretary Wu Qiwen. Although Chang Xingshen argued that the conference table in the Maternity and Infant Center was a public property and had nothing to do with the execution of the Environmental Protection Bureau's official duties, the judge believed that the conference table, name tags, and environmental impact assessment materials were used to assist in the meeting and were items in the charge of civil servants in their duties.

The judgment also pointed out that the defendants admitted the objective facts after committing the crime, but denied the subjective criminal intent. They expressed mediation and compensation for damages with the chief secretary of the Environmental Protection Bureau who made the complaint, but the complainant expressed no intention to mediate. Therefore, each was sentenced to 2 months in prison, and the combined sentence should be 4 months. If Yike was fined, it was equivalent to 120,000 yuan.