Osaka: LDP secretary accused of filming up woman’s skirt
Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a secretary for the Liberal Democratic Party over the alleged illicit filming of a woman in Osaka City last year, reports NHK
On the night of November 24, Hiroki Hanazaki, 44, allegedly used a mobile telephone to take tosatsu footage up the skirt of the woman, aged in her 20s, in an elevator at a shopping mall in Chuo Ward.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of violating a public nuisance ordinance regarding obscene acts on Tuesday, Hanazaki admitted to the allegations, police said.
Hanazaki is the secretary for the LDP’s Nobuhide Takemura, a member of the Lower House.
During the incident, the woman noticed light coming from near her feet. When she questioned a man nearby, he got off the elevator and fled by taxi.
Police apprehended Hanazaki using security camera footage from the mall and the license plate number of the taxi provided by the woman.
滋賀3区選出の自民党・武村展英衆議院議員の公設秘書・花崎広毅容疑者(44)が、女性のスカートの中を盗撮しようとしたとして、大阪府迷惑防止条例違反の疑いで逮捕されました。
警察によりますと、花崎容疑者は去年11月に、大阪市中央区の商業施設のエレベーター内で、乗り合わせた20代女性のスカートの中にスマートフォンを差し出した疑いが持たれています。女性がスマートフォンのライトに気づいて口論になりましたが、花崎容疑者はその場から逃走したということです。
花崎容疑者は調べに対して「盗撮したことに間違いない」と容疑を認めているということです。押収したスマホからは他にも盗撮したとみられる複数の動画が見つかっていて、警察が関連を調べています。
花崎容疑者は元千葉県議会議員で2013年の参院選に出馬して落選しています。
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