<figure id="attachment_289941" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-289941" style="width: 1583px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="092338d1"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/01/3ca97e8bc6af65c0d0311eb8a005bf40-3.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-289941" class="wp-caption-text">Councillor Gershey, whose house has been raided, announced that he will return to Japan in March&#8230; (from his official YouTube channel)</figcaption></figure>
 I wonder if we really need to arrest him in this case. I think we need to have a careful discussion.
 In response to the fact that NHK Party Councillor Gershey had his related parties raided for habitual threats and defamation of character, Hiroki Takahashi, an attorney at &#8220;Atom Ichikawa Funabashi Law Office&#8221; who serves as the criminal defense attorney in charge, posted an emergency commentary video on his YouTube channel on January 13.
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 Attorney Takahashi commented on the search and seizure of the related parties this time.
 &#8220;I thought that the police acted in a risky manner,&#8221; he said.
 I thought the police took a risky action,&#8221; he said.
 A search and seizure is a so-called &#8220;raid&#8221; that requires a court warrant and can include the seizure of documents, computers, and smartphones of related parties. The warrant must be shown before the search is conducted, and it must specify not only the suspicion, but also the &#8220;complainant.
 In short, it is obvious from the warrant whose complaint is being investigated, and it seems that Takahashi already knows.
 However, the police took an unusual action, he said.
 Normally, defense attorneys contact the victims through the police and try to reach a settlement,&#8221; he said. If the defense attorney seeks out and contacts the victim directly, it could lead to other problems such as threats, so the police are used as an intermediary to exchange contact information.
 However, this time, when we asked the police to contact the victim, they refused, saying, &#8220;We don&#8217;t do that kind of thing. &#8220;Of course they don&#8217;t do that! Takahashi&#8217;s lawyer protested, &#8220;Of course they didn&#8217;t! A reporter for a women&#8217;s magazine said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think so.
 When Mr. Gershey returns to Japan in early March, he will be in the middle of the Diet session, so he will have immunity from arrest, but he can be arrested exceptionally if the House of Councillors gives permission. Since the police have even obtained a warrant and are raiding the relevant places, it is assumed that they are quite serious about arresting Councilor Gershey. However, Attorney Takahashi disagreed.
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 I wonder if we really need to arrest him in this case. I think we need to have a careful discussion.
 I think there are many people who think that people who have done wrong deserve to be arrested, but this is a clear mistake. Arrest is not a punishment.
 Arrest is a means of taking a person into custody when there is a fear of destruction of evidence or escape, but it is not always necessary to arrest a person because the punishment is decided after a trial. Furthermore, the nature of the crime is &#8220;not serious,&#8221; Takahashi explained.
 The police have also suppressed the video of the exposé, so the fact that he made threats and defamed his reputation cannot be destroyed. The focus of the case is whether it is necessary to arrest a member of the Diet during a session of the Diet to prevent him from coming to the Diet and doing his job.
 He claims that he will neither run nor hide. However, if he is able to move freely after returning to Japan, there is no possibility that he will make contact with the celebrities who exposed him or go to see him, since he already knows the accused. The reason is that he originally posted a video in which he said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll never forgive the person who filed the charges. There is a possibility that he will be arrested and detained in order to facilitate interrogations, etc.&#8221; (reporter from a national newspaper)
 Since his election, Mr. Gyasi has never returned to Japan. We have a feeling that turmoil is likely to occur from the moment he sets foot on Japanese soil&#8230;.

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