Chiyoda Ward reported the damage caused by the “Ginkgo Cutting Issue.” “Security guards smirked at me…” The contents of the report are incomprehensible and at odds with the residents’ side.

Security guard injured for 4 to 6 weeks” … Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, filed a damage report with the police.

In the early morning of April 11, a mysterious “incident” occurred in the city center near the Imperial Palace.

Chiyoda Ward is in the process of road maintenance along the Kanda Police Street, and the police attempted to enter the area early in the morning. During the work, a group of residents opposed to the felling of the ginkgo trees along the street obstructed the work, resulting in the injury of a Chiyoda Ward employee. The ward posted a one-sided statement on its website claiming that the ward employee suffered a minor injury and the security guard a total of 4 to 6 weeks in recovery, and that a damage report had been submitted to and accepted by the Kanda Police Station.

However, the residents’ testimonies are completely different. According to a source on the residents’ side, two residents were also injured, but there is no mention of this on the ward’s website.

One resident said, “We are not opposed to the construction, but would like the construction to go ahead as soon as possible. They want to discuss whether they can keep the ginkgo trees that line the street. In previous discussions, the district has promised to contact them in advance of the construction work, but they have been unable to keep that promise, and the residents have been cooperating intermittently for about a year, guarding the trees at the site in the middle of the night, they said.

Testimony from the residents: “The security guard was smirking, this is not a good idea…”

Residents were guarding the trees that day as well, but early in the morning, as they passed by the ward office on their way home from the site, they noticed some disturbing activity.

A number of cars were parked and a number of people were there.

Realizing that something was wrong on the ward side, he contacted his friends, and the residents gathered at the tree-guard site.

About 4:00 a.m. early in the morning, the ward put up a construction fence to prevent residents from approaching the site. A TV station was also at the site. There were about 20 to 30 strong-looking security guards.

Large, stout people with their hands behind their backs stood in front of us and followed us around as if they were pushing us around.

A woman who rushed to the scene also said

A woman who rushed to the scene also testified, “The security guard was smiling at us and saying things like, ‘This is not good, this is not good.

I felt very uncomfortable,” she testified. When she tried to move to the side to get away from the guard, “the guard came in front of me on purpose,” she said.

The district claims that the residents physically assaulted them, but the residents insist that there was no physical assault. Rather, they say that the residents were pushed by the fence and fell down, and that some people suffered bruises and abrasions.

Some residents took video of the scene with their phones. The video also showed the guard slowly falling over himself. Some residents who were at the scene said that the guard might have been seriously injured, but an official on the residents’ side who saw the video said, “I don’t believe that person was seriously injured. If someone was seriously injured, it would have to be someone else,” he said.

An ambulance was called to the scene and a security guard was placed on board, but the resident who saw this said that he did not feel that he was seriously injured and that the ambulance was parked at the scene for a long time. On the other hand, the police officer who arrived at the scene after the resident called 110 said, “We are in a neutral position and would like the Chiyoda Ward and the resident to discuss the situation carefully,” and did not handle the incident on the spot.