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The story
In an incident this past June on a street in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, a Chinese woman had a bag containing roughly 8 million yen in cash snatched by two men. Investigative sources revealed on September 4 that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Ikebukuro Station had arrested Du Penghao (22), a Chinese national university student living in Tama City, Tokyo, believed to be the one who physically carried out the robbery, on suspicion of robbery resulting in injury — the arrest dated August 12. The second man believed to be involved reportedly left the country after the incident, and police are said to be searching for him. On 5ch’s News Express+ board, reactions centered on the reality of whether foreign suspects actually get prosecuted, and on the victim’s decision to carry such a large sum of cash in the first place.
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Kyodo News
Following an incident in June in which a Chinese woman had a bag containing about 8 million yen in cash stolen by two men on a street in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, it was learned on the 4th from investigative sources that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Ikebukuro Station had arrested Du Penghao (22), a Chinese national university student from Tama City, Tokyo, believed to be the one who carried out the robbery, on suspicion of robbery resulting in injury. The arrest was dated August 12. According to investigative sources, police had been tracking the second suspect, but he has already left the country.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Same old story.
Wish they could just extend the interrogation detention window 🥺
Well yeah, it's easy enough to line up a Chinese interpreter
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Fuchu City)
University of Electro-Communications (Chofu City)
Tokyo Metropolitan University (Hachioji City)
Chuo University
Meisei University
Teikyo University
Tama University
Kokushikan University
Low risk, high reward.
Japan: a paradise for foreign criminals
Wouldn't 8 million yen weigh less than a kilo, though?
He's only just been arrested though, hasn't he?
He's a Chinese student living in Tama City, so it's probably one of the universities out that way
Well, as the saying goes, 'it takes a snake to know the snake's path' (a Japanese idiom for how crooks are good at spotting easy targets)
Background and key points of the discussion
Robbery resulting in injury is a serious charge carrying a minimum sentence of three years, and the roughly three-week gap between the arrest and its public disclosure likely reflects the time investigators needed to build a solid case. What stands out here is that the second suspect has already left the country — bringing someone back from abroad typically requires international investigative cooperation and extradition procedures, which tends to drag things out. In the thread, a claim that “foreigners rarely get prosecuted” runs up against a counterargument that “there’s no data backing that, and it’s even been denied in Diet testimony,” suggesting the debate over prosecution rates for foreign nationals often lacks solid evidence on either side. Neither the article nor the thread explains why the victim was carrying such a large sum of cash or how the perpetrators found out about it, and speculation over which university the suspect attends also remains just that — speculation.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “800–œ‰~‹“‚©A’†‘l‘ß•ß@1l‚Ío‘A“Œ‹žE’r‘Ü [ôôôš]” (thread title garbled in original due to character encoding).
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