Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan was proud of "making it impossible for Paulin to escape" and was criticized by the victim's classmates. (Photo by reporter Chen Yikuan)
Last month, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan brought up the case of six people who died of mass food poisoning at Baolin Teahouse more than two years ago at a TV debate. He proudly declared that his city government team "made it impossible for Paulin to escape." This immediately aroused outrage from all walks of life. One of the classmates of the deceased even accused Chiang Wanan of consuming the dead citizens.
The victim's friend posted on Facebook, revealing that she had several close classmates in junior high school who were all admitted to Neihu High School. Although she and them attended different schools at the time, sometimes they would go to tutoring or K-book centers together after class. She remembered that there was a female classmate surnamed Duan from Neihu High School who was the school belle of Neihu High School back then. She can still picture that delicate and beautiful face in her mind based on her memory.
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The classmate of the deceased pointed out that the day after the Baolin incident, a friend from junior high school sent a Line notification, "Xiao Duan came to my house and told me that she had eaten very bitter rice noodles. The next day, I sent porridge to her house to visit her. She had been sent to the emergency room." In the end, the girl surnamed Duan left like this.
A classmate of the victim said that after the Taipei mayoral debate, friends from junior high school posted an article on Threads, angrily criticizing Jiang Wanan’s claim during the debate that “the city government assisted the victims in obtaining compensation from Baolin”, which was completely inconsistent with the actual situation. The fact is that Baolin has long been out of business, and the family has not received any compensation from Baolin Company. They have only received settlement funds paid by Continental and Property Insurance Company, as well as compensation from the national crime victim protection mechanism.
The deceased’s classmate pointed out that Chiang Wanan obviously interpreted the government’s negligence and laziness as political achievements and blatantly consumed dead citizens. The person in charge of Baolin has gone away and lost his property. “How can you make it sound like the city government has done a good job and tell the public about this matter as a very glorious political achievement?” When talking about the excitement, the deceased’s classmate couldn’t help but bombarded, “It doesn’t matter that the Taipei City Government did not take good care of food safety issues for the citizens. He (Chiang Wanan) even blatantly consumed dead citizens at the debate!”
The victim's classmates said that in the past four years, Jiang Wanan had made major mistakes during his tenure as mayor, including food safety incidents, nutritious lunch incidents, and child abuse incidents. However, he did not explain any of the incidents clearly to the citizens. At the debate, he regarded these incidents as political achievements. "He blatantly lied for the sake of the election. How should those who knew about it endure it?"
The victim's classmate lamented that he had never cared so much about the Taipei mayor's election in previous years. In the past few decades, he felt that there was no need to care so much. After all, there is no absolutely direct relationship between municipal governance and national identity. Therefore, even when Ke Wenzhe ran for re-election, even though he was disappointed with him, he did not criticize him too much on the Internet.
The author pointed out that during this Taipei mayoral election, she decided to publish a political article even though she knew she was unpopular because she deeply felt that what the mayor did would really affect our lives.
The author said that he had heard Wang Weizhong interview Tsai Kang-yong before, and Tsai Kang-yong mentioned, "Politics is something we can't escape. No matter how hard we turn our eyes away. If you ignore it, it will ignore you." As a native of Taipei City, he was born, grew up, married, and had children in this city. He may also retire here in the future, and his children will continue to grow up in Taipei City. If you don't care who is the mayor, it may affect your friends, family, and children.
Therefore, she once again quoted Tsai Kang-yong's statement, "When it comes to voting, you don't care which candidate wins, you have to care whether you win or not; when you vote for the life you want, you win." The victim's classmate called on every Taipei citizen to think carefully about who can bring the Taipei City you want.
