American Teacher Attacked by Chinese Mob
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 04.23.08 | 2:49 PM ET
Very scary story out of China: A 22-year-old American volunteer teacher in the Hunan Province city of Zhuzhou was reportedly attacked by a mob outside the French grocery store chain Carrefour on Sunday. According to one account, attackers chanted “Kill him! Kill the Frenchman.” The AP reports that the man was “quickly whisked away by police and was not hurt.”
Chinese nationalists angered by anti-China protests in Paris during the Olympic torch run protested at the French Embassy in Beijing and at a number of Carrefour stores around China, the AP reports. Also troubling: Shanghaiist notes that “Our foreign correspondent friends in Shanghai and Beijing have been receiving death threats on their mobile phones and through their faxes ...”