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Japanese media reported that Saitama prefectural police said they arrested three former Vietnamese technical trainees involved in the theft of hundreds of pears worth 273,000 yen ($ 2,600).
On December 2, the police searched an apartment in Isesaki, Gunma province, involved in the robbery a few months ago and arrested three Vietnamese on suspicion of staying longer on visas, in violation of immigration laws and laws. Recognition of refugees.
Every year thousands of Vietnamese come to Japan to work with simple skills under the “technical interns” recruitment program.
Those arrested in the incident told police they “needed money to pay off a loan to pay for a move to Japan.”
“They also said they couldn’t go back because they ran out of money,” the sources quoted the Asahi newspaper as saying.
This article reports that a total of 742 pears were stolen in August and September from an orchard in Kamikawa, Saitama prefecture.
It is known that the police monitored the relationship between the people who came to this department and the individuals who dumped the motorcycle near the scene of the robbery.
On September 4 and 5, police found backpacks containing 182 pears and an abandoned vehicle with license plates from another prefecture, Ibaraki.
Saitama prefectural police were notified of the fruit theft in August with a total of around 5,500 pears worth around 1.38 million yen (about US $ 13,000), according to the report.
Thousands of pears and pears were also stolen from Gunma and Tochigi prefectures, not to mention livestock such as pigs and chickens, also stolen from farms in those provinces.
In October, Japanese police arrested several Vietnamese in Gunma province who were apprentices on suspicion of violating immigration law and then investigated cases of cattle theft and illegal domestic cattle operations.
This year about 720 pigs, 140 chickens and about 9,000 pear-like fruits and grapes were stolen from Gunma.
At the end of October, there was the arrest of 10 suspects who were selling ecstasy to Japan and the case of three suspects who broke into their homes and stole 10.6 million yen (2.3 billion VND).
Figures from the Japan General Police Department in 2018 show that the number of criminal cases committed by Vietnamese perpetrators is 5,140, which represents more than 30% of all cases of foreigners in Japan, while only Vietnamese who represent the 12.1% of the expat community.
There are more than 400,000 Vietnamese living, working and studying in Japan.
‘Frustrated and stuck’
The article describing the reason why Vietnamese citizens violate the law tend to increase rapidly in the past in Japan ” is partly due to the fact that there are so many Vietnamese citizens trapped in Japan during the period. Because he was unable to return to the country, life fell into a tight and stagnant life.
Therefore, we hope that the Government will pay attention, accelerate the increase in rescue flights and soon resume commercial flights to bring citizens home, to prevent our citizens from breaking the law due to being pushed into a dilemma… ”, this newspaper quoted the message of the Embassy of Vietnam in Japan.
Japan’s NHK channel published on November 14 a report on the plight of Vietnamese students in Japan in the context of being stranded and unable to return home for many reasons, including epidemics, few jobs, or loss. part time job.
The reporter said that the Vietnamese embassy said there are now more than 20,000 Vietnamese citizens waiting to go home, but students are not the top priority.
BBC Vietnamese’s own source said that there are some 30,000 Vietnamese citizens in Japan who have the need to return home for different reasons.
The “commercial flights” in the form of a “package” (both tickets and accommodation, isolation, tests) to take the Vietnamese back to their home countries on request have been scheduled for December and January 2021.