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An unidentified man dressed in black suddenly jumped a barricade during a flag breeding ceremony in Tiananmen Square in Beijing and was struggled by security, showed a video published on social networks.
The video of the incident, which would have taken place on Monday, two days before the birthday of June 4, 1989, the repression of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, was published on the X by “M. Li is not your teacher ”, who publishes content on this platform to circumvent the censorship of the Chinese government.
The man, wearing glasses, and a black jacket and pants, ran to the flag pole during the last bars of the national anthem of the People's Republic of China. It was discussed by guards and plainclothes staff, while passers -by during the ceremony filmed on their mobile phones. Some spectators have been heard in the video exclaiming: “Someone rushed!”
A few seconds later, the man was carried out by half a dozen security staff and taken to a police van without struggle.
The identity, nationality and the reasons of man remain vague. On Tuesday, security inside and outside Tiananmen Square would have been intensified.