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https://www.mbs.jp/news/kansainews/20230523/GE00050031.shtml
A man of foreign nationality who was arrested for breaking a shrine offering box. Security cameras captured the entirety of the crime.
A video of “Mizuoka Hachiman Shrine” in Tarumi Ward, Kobe City. After confirming it, a man in yellow clothes appeared in the precincts around 9:30 am on May 3. Then he…kicked the offertory box.
Mamadou Balde (29), an unemployed citizen of the Republic of Gambia living in Tarumi Ward, was arrested on suspicion of damaging property. Mamadou’s other crimes…
Another security camera also showed the bamboo pipes in the chozuya, where they wash their hands, and the wooden box on top of another offertory box being slammed to the ground.
Mizuoka Hachiman Shrine, chief priest, said: “It’s really disappointing, I can only say that.” Mamadou said to a woman who was visiting at the time said, ‘There is only Allah (the god) of Islam, so there is no God here, so don’t pray here.”
Mamadou said in response to the police investigation, “I have nothing to say about the illegal arrest.”