Saitama Mayor arrested May 7 at 11:21 on suspicion of assault while visiting Hiroshima for a ceremony
The mayor of Satte City, Saitama Prefecture was arrested on the suspicion of assault for dating a female employee of a restaurant in Hiroshima city at dawn on the 7th. This means that they have denied the charges by saying that they do n’t remember. The mayor had visited Hiroshima to participate in the Peace Memorial Ceremony held on the day of the Hiroshima atomic bomb on the 6th.
Mr. Kunio Watanabe (62), the mayor of Satte City, Saitama Prefecture, was arrested.
Mayor Watanabe is suspected of assaulting at the half-morning on the 7th of July at a miscellaneous building in Naka-ku, Hiroshima City, scolding the face of a 20-year-old female employee several times.
According to the police, Mayor Watanabe had a drink at a restaurant in the building and, after leaving the store, beat a woman in the hallway and elevator.
To the investigation, he stated that he was “not able to understand why this happened because he did not remember at all” and denied the charges.
According to Satte City, Mayor Watanabe visited Hiroshima City for 2 days and 3 nights, and participated in the Peace Memorial Ceremony held on the 6th day of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Day as the leader of Satte City's dispatch project. about it.
About Mayor Satte
The mayor of Kunio Watanabe is 62 years old. After being a city council member in Satte City, he was elected for the first time in the 2011 mayoral election and is now in its second term.
According to Satte City, Mayor Watanabe had visited Hiroshima City with five local junior high school students for five days and three nights to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony as part of the city's business.