Chilean pair on tourist visas suspected in more than 10 break-ins, arrested in Tokyo

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1. FFS 🤦🏻‍♂️

   Chile is such a long way from Japan (fastest route is roughly 26 hours), to come to Japan for this crap? 🤦🏻‍♂️

   Why are we hearing about them anyway? why didn’t the police just make them disappear until they confess everything?

2. According to the article it’s suspected they were involved in break ins across multiple prefectures. What is this a crime safari? Haha

3. Maybe they were already criminals at their home country and was too excited on how easy is it to make break ins and go all the way out lol

4. Arest and deport.

5. lol, no wonder the Japanese don’t like foreigners. They have to deal with their local criminals and now they have to deal with foreign criminals.

6. *”[…] allegedly broke into the home of 78-year-old man in Denenchofu*, *Ota Ward, Tokyo.*

   *They then stole about 5.35 million yen in cash, about 12,000 U.S. dollars in U.S. currency and 31 items including rings, with the total value of lost property coming to around 9.7 million yen, reports the Sankei Shimbun.[…]”*

   I get that older folks have a lot of cash lying around, but why exactly in dollars? Is it common for Japanese elderly to hoard not only Japanese, but also foreign currency?

7. There was a Chilean crime ring in Southern California doing the same thing very recently

8. Must be nice not having to worry about a visa.

9. Lmao imagine ruining your own country so much that you need to start flying to other countries across the pacific on tourist visas to ruin them too.

10. Was it a targeted burglary ? Seems the old guy had rather a lot of cash at home , so how’d they know that ?

11. As a Chilean, I sincerely hope they get what they deserve, preferably the 死刑.

12. As a Chilean currently in Japan, it ashames me so much. 😞

13. This is happening so much in the USA that they are considering removing the 90 day visa waiver for Chileans.