Mayhem at Beijing Apple store?

GlobalPost
The World

Beijing’s Apple store was running business as usual on Monday, with an orderly line of customers snaking around the outside of the store to buy new iPhones.

But debate raged online over an incident over the weekend that left four people injured and the store's large glass front door shattered.

Chinese media reported that a “foreign employee” of the Apple store assaulted a customer in a kerfuffle over cutting in line, where people waited to buy a new white version of the iPhone. It appears many people in the line are resellers who buy the phones and scalp them elsewhere.

Chinese lines are not known for orderliness and fights often break out over cutting places. The People’s Daily said that the foreign attacker” had been fined 20,000 yuan (about $3,080), but no criminal charges were brought. It’s unclear where the foreigner might have been from, or how anyone knew it was a foreigner.

Apple has not responded to media requests from multiple organizations.

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