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Protesting against Kyoto Police raid of union office
10th of June before 9 in the morning, 19 police men from Kyoto Prefecture Police Security 3rd department (so called public safety dep.) raided and searched the union office which is used by Rakunan Union, Rakunan Workers Network, Asia Joint Action (Asia Kyodokodo) , (and ) also an house of ‘A’ who is a member of Rakunan Union for the suspect of “fraud related incident” (with an arrest warrant), which is an apparent excuse to crush the movement against the summit.
Kyoto Police (‘Hori’ is the person in charge) claims that the union member A unlawfully received unemployment allowance in 2004, which is claimed to be found as a proof after the search of his house. (‘A’ denies this of course.) This is something which happened in 4 years ago and even if what they claim was true, it should had been dealt by ‘Hello Work’ (something like JobCenter). Responding to our question, Hori said it was conducted originally by the 3rd Department. Answering to another question why they had to search the union office for an suspected incident of an individual, he gave no convincing reasons other than saying “It is Independent Workers Network (Jiritsu Rooren) which is used as a contact address for Asia Joint Action (Asia Kyodokodo).
Kyoto police did the search based on their made-up story, ‘A’ received the allowance to fund Asia Joint Action (Asia Kyodokoodo) to find out his relation to the group for the proof of their fake story.
They spend three hours searching and occupying the office for the proof, which of course can not be found. Instead, they brought back a list of members of Rakunan Union and a list of members payment of union fee. Are they going to claim that these are the proof of his “fraud”??
Source: email