Shoe scandal of Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao

by Daniel Kraig    February 03, 2009

A Protester threw shoe at the chinese prime minister Mr. Wen Jiabao. The incident happened in the Cambridge University where Chinese Premier was delivering a speech. The shoe missed the target in a distance of 30 feet, and the alert security officers arrested the accused on the spot.

It is another incident of shoe throwing after shoe was thrown in American president Bush in Irag. the trend is becoming popular among communities and people are showing there shoe to protest something they don't like. Few times back Ravi Sahastri, Indian cricket player too was welcomed with shoes after his match losing performance in the tournament that time.

Coming back to the chinese shoe scandal, the thrower is a young guy and speaking foreigh accented english. The Incident took place like this. He(suspect) blew a whistle as Mr. Wen spoke, causing him to break and look up. "You should be ashamed of yourselves," the man said, according to witnesses. "How can you listen to the lies he's telling?" he shouted, in a video of the incident shown on Sky News television.

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