Taiwanese police have ruled after their initial investigation on a truck driver's attack of the presidential office, that Zhang DeZheng's act had nothing to do with his anger over the government.
Instead, the police asserted, DeZheng was angry with society. However, a letter sent by DeZheng to a local news station just before he crashed his vehicle into the gates of the presidential office revealed in so many ways how disgruntled he was toward the Taiwanese government.
In the said letter, DeZheng said "he could not accept this government" and that after he died "he would become a demon."
Citing the treatment he received during a domestic dispute case, Zhang DeZheng wrote in his letter that Taiwan was an unjust place and that people were divided into two classes: "the nobel and the lowly." The letter also mentioned recent controversies in the Taiwanese media, including the case of a soldier who died during training and the subsequent cover-ups, as well as various accusations regarding abuses of power by Taiwanese officialdom.
The content of DeZheng's letter also reflected the emotional rants he had been posting online over the past year, hinting at some point at his planned attack on the presidential office. On Facebook, he posted a picture of a car accident saying that someday it will be him and the name of his movie will be "Applause for the Suicide."
Last December, upon seeing a car accident on the highway involving a black car, he posted numerous hints about attacking the presidential motorcade. Months earlier, DeZheng said online that he was neither "green nor blue" (the colors of Taiwan's two political parties) but criticized the president, saying that he has forgotten the people. He added that if Dr. Sun Yat-sen could see the Republic of China now, he would "spit blood and die."
DeZheng said in his letter that he was determined to die in the crash, adding that if the attack took the lives of people, he was willing to face the death penalty or spend the rest of his life in jail. Despite DeZheng's truck crashing through the gates of the presidential office and on the bulletproof doors, there were no casualties. DeZheng was immediately arrested and taken by police to the hospital.
The police said that they have nearly wrapped up the case but will still continue "to investigate further details online" for more clues.