By Admin In 1999, there was a major breakthrough in the investigation into the important testimony of Sergeant X. X himself said that he had been questioned by a police officer while scouting the area prior to the incident.
During the investigation by Ishimura and others at the Ikebukuro Prince Hotel, X testified that “On March 27, 1995, three days before the incident, I was stopped by a police officer near the scene of the crime, and I said, ‘I’m on stakeout,’ showed him my police ID and handed him my business card.” (*Chapter 18-1 & 2) At the time, this statement was new to Ishimura and others, as well as the Special Investigation Headquarters. If this could be corroborated, it could be confirmed that X had at least done a reconnaissance.
Investigators conducted multiple interviews with uniformed police officers, including officers from Minamisenju Police Station. However, the “police officer who conducted the search” did not come forward. (See Chapter 24-2.) On September 14, 1999, four and a half years after the incident, a police officer who “searched a police officer” came forward.
However, upon listening carefully, it soon becomes clear that this is a different case from the one X had described in his testimony.
The scene of the incident at Acrocity (Arakawa Ward, Tokyo)
In the early morning of March 28, the uniformed police officer saw a man standing in the parking lot of a fishing lodge in front of Tenno Park near Acrocity, where the crime occurred.
Feeling suspicious that he was there at this time of night, I called out to him. The man then produced his police badge, said he was with the Tsukiji Special Investigation Unit, and walked towards a white car parked nearby.
There was a woman in the passenger seat of the white car and a man in the driver’s seat, so the police officer thought they were investigating and left.
The remains of the “fishing lodge parking lot” where a man with a “police ID” was questioned (Arakawa Ward, Tokyo)
The police officer returned to the police box, worried again, so he returned to the scene, only to find that the man had already gone.
When he returned to the police box, the phone suddenly rang and a man said, “I’m from the Tsukiji Special Investigation Unit. I’d like to go on a recreational trip, so can you tell me the phone number of a fishing lodge?”
“Rek” refers to going out with colleagues from work on the weekend to socialize.
Thinking that he was the same “investigator” from before, the police officer gave him the phone number of the fishing lodge.
Would there be police officers who would hold a “learning session” just one week after the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack?
“Recreation” is almost a police term, but it was unbelievable given the circumstances at the time. It was only a week after the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, and police nationwide were fighting Aum Shinrikyo. There was no way that investigators from the Tsukiji Police Station Special Investigation Headquarters (responsible for the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack), who were on the front lines of the fight, could have been given a “recreation.” This was a ridiculous lie.