Search for "core" bases Last month's top appearance for the first time in 51 years Activity survey October 16 13:23
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The Metropolitan Police Department has searched for the base of the extremist "core faction" who has repeated the guerrilla incident in the past.
As for the core group, the top of the organization appeared last month for the first time in 51 years, and the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the actual situation of its activities.
After 8 am on the 16th, about 100 people, including investigators from the Public Security Department of the Metropolitan Police Department and riot police with electric cutters, gathered in front of the "core" base building in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo.
Dozens of people lived together in the building, and the investigators went into the building one by one to take measures against the new coronavirus.
The search was conducted in connection with a case in which member Yasuyuki Yagi (48) was arrested on the 12th of this month for obtaining a driver's license at a false address, and the Metropolitan Police Department hid Yagi. However, I am investigating that he was a liaison with a "non-public activist" who acts illegally.
Last month, Takeo Shimizu (83), the head of the organization, made a speech at a rally held in Tokyo and appeared for the first time in 51 years.
During the search, Chair Shimizu was also confirmed to be in the room inside the building.
According to police officials, the core faction has caused more than 100 incidents, including the "Shibuya riot case" in which a police box was attacked in Shibuya, Tokyo in 1971, and police officers were killed. We are investigating the relationship with and the actual situation of the current activities of the organization.
The core faction commented that the search was "perceived as an unjustified investigation."