A 61-year-old Austrian man was arrested last month for having sex at a shrine in Japan with a 40-year-old Japanese woman, local police said. to CNN this Wednesday (4).
The couple were caught having sex on August 22 while at a shrine in Kesennuma – a small coastal town about 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of Tokyo – and face charges of disrespecting a place of worship.
The police told the CNN who arrested the man, fearing he might pose a flight risk, but did not arrest the woman after concluding she was not a flight risk.
The man has since been released from custody, but police said they could not release details of his punishment and did not clarify whether he was a tourist or resident. Such cases do not always end in forced repatriation, police said, and can result in a fine.
Although such a case is rare, there have been other cases of people being arrested for disrespecting Japanese shrines.
Last year, a 17-year-old Canadian was taken in for questioning after allegedly scratching the name “Julian” with his fingernail into a wooden pillar at a UNESCO-listed temple in the historic city of Nara, local police said. to CNN at the time.
“The boy admitted his act and said it was not done with the intention of harming Japanese culture,” a police officer said. “He is now with his parents, who were with him when the incident occurred.”
Meanwhile, in 2010, famous photographer Kishin Shinoyama was charged with public indecency and disrespect for a religious site when he allegedly took nude photos in a public cemetery.
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This content was originally published in Austrian man arrested for having sex in Japanese sanctuary on the CNN Brasil website.
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