Posted on 07/13/2022 2:41:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Effigies of the Russian president have been spotted at different temples in a Japanese town but Mitsunobu Hino has escaped prosecution despite being caught on camera
A man who was arrested after being caught nailing Vladimir Putin voodoo dolls to Japanese temples will not be prosecuted.
Mitsunobu Hino, 72, was spotted on security cameras leaving Vlad impaled after hammering an effigy of the warmongering Russian president to a tree at a sacred Shinto shrine in the town of Matsudo, which lies about 20 miles east of Tokyo in the Chiba Prefecture.
The dolls, known as wara ningyo in Japan, have repeatedly popped up on trees at the town's shrines – the places that are dedicated to local deities.
They were secured with a spike through the doll, which is the traditional method of placing a death curse in Japan, with everyone having a picture of Putin on them.
Investigators apprehended Hino after studying video footage at a shrine and the suspect did not deny the charges when they visited his house to make the arrest.
But, having been released from police custody shortly after his arrest, it has been revealed that the case against him will, for now be going no further with the charges having been dropped.
He was let off the hook because the shrine he was filmed at – the Mikazuki Shrine – has decided not to pursue the matter, with a spokesperson for the Chiba Public Prosecutor’s Office’s Matsudo division declaring: “The victim has withdrawn the complaint.”
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Online reactions to Hino's actions were mixed with one Twitter user quipping: “I’m sort of rooting for him, but he shouldn’t nail things into the shrine’s tree.”
Another added: “When they said ‘the victim has withdrawn the complaint’, I almost thought they meant Putin.”
That should be good for a meme.
When we start seeing them in Russia we’ll know
his time is short.
In before the fanboys arrive.
Putin doesnt have any designs on me or my family. Cant say that about the WEF and Stooges who control The Ukraine.
Doesn’t make me a “fanboy” though.
Putin may have his GPS location programmed into one of his hypersonic nuclear missiles though.
Can’t wait to see Putin dying the miserable, painful, and prolonged death he so richly deserves.
Sadly, he’ll more likely die of a .17 caliber stroke...just like what he did during his KGB days.
Sounds like Putin is living rent free inside your head.
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