Haiphong police’s investigative agency will begin court proceedings against local officials that ordered the demolition of property in the recent coercive repossession of Doan Van Vuon’s land.

The investigative agency is investigating the house demolition 

The agency came to the decision on the afternoon of February 8.

The municipal government assigned the agency to investigate the case after receiving a petition from Nguyen Thi Thuong, wife of 49-year-old Vuon, and Pham Thi Hien, wife of Doan Van Quy, Vuon’s brother.

Their initial results revealed that Vuon and Quy’s houses in Tien Lang District’s Quang Vinh Commune were destroyed on January 6, a day after Vuon and his family violently resisted the forcible land confiscation of this land in a dispute that left six local police officers injured.

Authorities in Tien Lang District had confiscated 19.3 hectares of land upon the request of the district People’s Committee. However, Vuon and Quy’s houses were not located within the area subject to the forced removal.

Despite their wrong doings local authorities in Haiphong ranging from communal to municipal levels all denied their responsibility for the action.

However, building workers Vu Van Ket, 40, Do Van Doan, 44, and Dang Van Tai, 25 confessed that they had been hired to do the demolition by Nguyen Van Khanh, Deputy Chairman of the District People’s Committee; Le Thanh Liem, Chairman of the Commune People’s Committee; and Pham Dang Hoan, Commune Party Committee Secretary.

On the morning of February 8, the investigative agency summoned Khanh, Liem, Hoan as well as Le Van Hien, Chairman of Tien Lang District People’s Committee to further investigate the house demolitions.