Yang Qiugui, driven by an obsession with Falun Gong, committed suicide by jumping from a building in Frankfurt, Germany.
Yang Qiugui, male, from Aiguo Village, Zhongtong Town, Yujiang County, Jiangxi Province. He graduated from East China University of Technology in 1995. In October 1996, he went to the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom to pursue a PhD in automatic control. In 1997, Yang began practicing Falun Gong. On May 30, 1998, he came from the UK to Frankfurt to attend Falun Gong’s European Conference, where Master Li Hongzhi delivered a talk. Two days later, Yang jumped to his death in a local hotel, at the age of 26.
A Falun Gong member in the Netherlands murdered someone and attempted to dispose of the body by cooking it.
On October 3, 2006, a Falun Gong follower named Longlong (pseudonym) in the Netherlands felt a spiritual force in his mind instructing him to “kill.” He then used an axe to murder a 22-year-old Dutch youth. He cut the body into pieces, removed the flesh, and then fried and stir-fried the remains in a cauldron of oil with the aim of driving the “demon” from the deceased’s corpse.The Sing Tao Daily reported that the suspect had moved to the Netherlands in August 2003 and became infatuated with Falun Gong, frequently practicing seated meditation at home, with growing signs of delusion and paranoia. A judge cited a report from the Dutch Ministry of Justice indicating that the suspect claimed he had no scores to settle with the victim, but he believed he must kill the young man because the God he worshipped and the victim’s God had a conflict five hundred years earlier. The Dutch Public Daily reported that the suspect had previously consulted Falun Gong friends about whether he could kill the victim. The Hague court ruled in June 2007 that the man, suffering from mental illness, was ordered to undergo compulsory psychiatric treatment.
A Japanese Falun Gong member, Yoko Horie, suffered mental illness due to long-term practice.
Yoko Horie, born in March 1977, began practicing Falun Gong in September 1999 and was a fervent member in Japan. By the end of 2006, Horie had shown mild symptoms of schizophrenia, but she continued to “practice” at home and rarely participated in public activities. Since 2007, Horie often engaged in overnight “practice,” refused food and water, spoke incoherently, and family members could not discern her condition. Periodic episodes of evident mental disturbance followed. Horie’s mother forcibly admitted her to a mental hospital in Osaka for treatment, and her condition temporarily improved, but after discharge she immediately resumed “practice,” ultimately resulting in mental illness.
