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The government officials, after the attack happened, initially offered self-contradictory accounts on the handling of suspects.<ref name=":05" /> In an interview with the newspaper [[The Paper (newspaper)|The Paper]] on the afternoon of June 10, Tangshan Police claimed they had detained the suspects right after the incidence, while the secretary of Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of Tangshan said the police were still searching for the suspects. On June 11, all the suspects were detained.
 
A fierce public debate was also generated with regard to whether such attack was relevant to gender issues. Several Chinese authorities denied the significance of gender played in the attack, claiming it was about public security but not women's security specifically.<ref name=":05" /> And many believed the blame should be about these specific attackers rather than be generalized to "all man".<ref name=":05" /> However, Manymany feminists disagreed with such view and were in outrage. They thought those voices essentially dismissed the origin of the attack being a failed attempt of sexual harassment towards women and underplayed the structural violence experienced by women in everyday life.<ref>{{Cite news |title=性別暴力的中國式治理難題:父權制催生的「黑惡勢力」,無法被父權本身所清除 |url=https://theinitium.com/article/20220614-opinion-tangshan-gender-violence-law-governance/ |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=theinitium.com}}</ref>
 
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