A brief introduction to the Ma Yue case

The Ma Yue case refers to the incident that occurred on the evening of August 23, 2010, when Ma Yue, a college student from Beijing, fell from the rails at the Gulou Street Station of the Beijing Subway and died. Since the surveillance video at the time of the incident could not be retrieved, the cause of Ma Yue's death and the reason for the injury to his jaw aroused doubts from the deceased's family and the forensic community. For this reason, Ma Yue's mother took the Xicheng District Government of Beijing to court.

Ma Yue was born in 1989 in Beijing. In 2008, he was admitted to Southwest Jiaotong University to major in English. I returned to Beijing during the summer vacation in 2010. On the evening of August 23, while waiting for a train at Guloujie Station on Beijing Subway Line 2, I fell from the platform into the track and was struck by high-voltage electricity and died. The identification issued by the Chinese Society of Forensic Medicine is that Ma Yue meets the criteria for death from acute respiratory and cardiac arrest caused by electric shock.

After the incident, the police initially concluded that "the child jumped by himself." However, Ma Yue showed no signs of suicide before entering the subway, and the subway station with complete surveillance equipment had no video to check. Fang said it had been automatically deleted.

The Beijing Metro Signaling Company, which is responsible for subway monitoring, said that the video recording failed to be retrieved due to a malfunction. According to the appraisal issued by the Chinese Forensic Science Society, the police believe that it was not a homicide and not a criminal case.

Afterwards, Ma Yue’s mother, Meng Chaohong, went to the subway platform every night carrying a sign to look for insiders, and opened the "Forever Ma Yue" blog online.

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The impact of the Ma Yue case

In August 2013, female forensic doctor Wang Xuemei published an online article titled "Wang Xuemei questioned the Chinese Forensic Science Association and issued a solemn statement "Statement" announced his resignation, and at the same time announced his resolute withdrawal from the Chinese Society of Forensic Medicine, saying that he was "very disappointed, even desperate, with the current situation of the Chinese forensic team." She questioned the identification conclusion that Ma Yue fell to his death on the subway at Gulou Street Station in 2010.

Wang Xuemei said in the statement: "In the case of Ma Yue, the Chinese Society of Forensic Medicine came up with such an identification conclusion. For me, as the current vice president of the Chinese Society of Forensic Medicine, there is zero tolerance. So. , I not only want to resign from the position of vice president of the Chinese Society of Forensic Medicine, but I also want to withdraw from the Chinese Society of Forensic Medicine. From now on, I will definitely not participate in any activities organized by the Chinese Society of Forensic Medicine.”

The Supreme People’s Procuratorate learned, In response to Wang Xuemei's statement circulated online, the Supreme People's Procuratorate Technical Information Research Center responded that Wang Xuemei has no longer served as deputy director of the center since June 2013, and has not been engaged in actual forensic identification work for many years.

According to a Sina Weibo notice posted by Ma Yue’s mother, Meng Chaohong @马元AMA, on August 22, her personal professional opinion on Ma Yue’s case has been submitted to the First Intermediate People’s Court.

Today, Wang Xuemei entrusted Ma Yue’s mother to tell the judge of an Intermediate People’s Court the following: “I (Wang Xuemei) will announce my findings to the people of the country in three days, and I will use scientific analysis to prove that Ma Yue was shocked three times. In fact, I am willing to use my life as collateral to accept the review and examination of all Communist Party members and forensic doctors across the country. If I am wrong, I am willing to die to apologize!"

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