A day after the video of a women being attacked at the hallway of a Beijing hotel went viral, the operator of the hotel apologized to the victim.
CRIEnglish reported on Thursday that Homeinns, which runs the Heyi Hotel located at the Chaoyang District of Beijing, held a press conference to issue a formal apology to the victim. The hotel said sorry for the insufficient management of the incident because no employee of the establishment bothered to help the woman in trouble.
Footage of the incident showed a man hold the woman, who used the handle Wanwan_2016 on Weibo where she posted the clip, on the throat and then dragged the victim out of the hotel lobby. Fortunately, another female guest at the hotel intervened and prevented the man from abducting the victim.
Homeinns said it would thoroughly probe the incident, together with Beijing police.
The incident, which happened on Sunday at about 11 p.m., raised questions about the safety of women in the capital city. It also brought to fore the attitude of many Chinese, who often refuse to intervene when a man beats a woman or child because of the thinking that it is a domestic problem they have no right to butt in.
The video was shared more than one million times on Weibo within 48 hours after Wanwan posted it. However, some netizens doubt Wanwan’s version of the story because her Weibo account is newly opened and the only post on it is the video of the incident.
Asiaone reported that the hashtag #Woman has been attacked in Heyi hotel# in the most heated topic in Weibo where the post has more than 600 million reads so far.