China News Service, July 5, Comprehensive Japanese media reported that on the 4th, when the Tokyo Olympic flame was passed to Mito City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, it was suddenly shot by a crowd of onlookers with a water gun.
Fortunately, the torch relay was not interrupted.
On the 4th, when the Tokyo Olympic flame was passed to Mito City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, it was suddenly shot by a crowd of onlookers with a water gun.
(Image source: Screenshot of Japanese TBS TV station report)
According to reports, on July 4, the Olympic torch came to Ibaraki Prefecture and began a two-day relay there.
At around 7:30 pm on the 4th local time, when the torch reached Mito City, a crowd of onlookers on the side of the road suddenly sprayed an unknown liquid with a water gun to the torch. This population also chanted slogans such as "Against the Olympics".
The local police said that they subsequently arrested the 53-year-old woman on suspicion of "violent obstruction of official duties."
After investigation, this person was unemployed and lived in nearby Hitachi City. She confessed to spraying the torch with a water gun.
Currently, the police are investigating the incident in detail.
According to reports, the torchbearer who carried the torch relay was not injured at the time of the incident, and the torch relay that day was carried out to the end as planned.