This month, police found that a national important cultural property, Yagura, was damaged at Okayama Castle in Okayama City, and police suspected that a man in his 40s arrested in another case would soon violate the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties. It is a policy to arrest at.
On the 18th of this month, at Okayama Castle in Okayama City, 30 scratches were found, including the tower, which is designated as a national important cultural property, and the pillars and walls of the castle tower.
When police examined the images of security cameras, an unemployed man in his 40s living in Aichi Prefecture was arrested on suspicion of damaging property for damaging a car in a parking lot in Okayama City five days later. It turned out that it is highly possible that he was at the scene when the wound was found at Okayama Castle.
It is said that some of the wounds on the castle tower were engraved with the surname of a man.
The police are planning to re-arrest next week on suspicion of violating the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties, saying that the suspicion of a man's crime has increased.
From last month to this month, there were cases of castle damage in Fukuyama Castle, Matsuyama Castle, and Kochi Castle in Hiroshima Prefecture, and police are also investigating the relationship.