In May this year, an unknown personJapan Capsaicin was sprayed on the first floor of Ginza Six, a shopping mall in the Ginza area of Tokyo, causing 30 people to fall ill. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced on the 29th that a 24-year-old Chinese maleinternational students Arrested on suspicion of causing hurt.
The Mainichi Shimbun and Fuji News Network (FNN) reported that the international student was suspected of spraying irritant drug on a man in his 30s near the cash machine area of the bank on the first floor of GINZA SIX around noon on May 25 this year. Four people, including a man, suffered minor injuries due to eye and throat irritation after inhaling gas containing capsaicin.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Tsukiji Police Station said the arrested international student lived in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. When facing investigation, he said he “did not want to tell the truth” and refused to confess. After meeting an acquaintance, he sprayed an irritant substance near the scene and was suspected of causing harm to others.
Capsaicin has tear-inducing properties and is used to protect the body or protect bears. The Tsukiji Police Department reported that 30 people reported feeling unwell at the time.
Surveillance footage captured the suspect leaving the scene and going into the subway. It is being told that the suspect had a conversation with other people some time before the incident.
