After a heated dispute over martial arts on Facebook, rivals from two different schools faced off against each other in a sparring match that turned into a brawl that injured three people at a dojo in Taipei, police said.
At the center of the fighting were 51-year-old karate instructor Chu Hsueh-chang and a 27-year-old man surnamed Tsai.
The Da-an District Police office received an emergency call late on Monday night that a fight had broken out at Chu’s dojo, and officers were dispatched to the scene. When the police arrived outside the dojo, there were more than 10 men and women gathered outside, with some saying that a fight was taking place inside the building.
The police then demanded that Chu open the door. Once inside, the police discovered three injured people and called an ambulance to take them to the hospital. Two were later discharged, while one person who was more seriously injured remained in the hospital for observation. The injured included Tsai, who had suffered blunt head trauma, a 31-year-old man surnamed Chan with minor lacerations to the neck and a 35-year-old jujitsu practitioner named Wang Yu-lin with serious stab wounds that were deemed non-life-threatening.
After questioning, the police took Chu and Tsai into custody on Tuesday afternoon to gather evidence as both sides wished to press charges of assault, attempted murder and other offenses.
Chu claims to be a descendant of the first Ming emperor Chu Yuan-chang, a community leader and a karate expert.
Early last year, while leading community residents in cleaning a street drain, he engaged in a verbal confrontation with another person whom he subsequently injured using karate and was sued for assault, the prosecutors’ office said.
A student of Wang’s said that after letting the three into the school, Chu locked the main door, after which he could hear his coach screaming for help.
Wang said that there were between 20 and 30 people inside, all brandishing knives.
Chu said that it was his rival who brought 20 to 30 people with him, saying that he did not stab anyone and it was the other party who brought the knives.
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