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PES | Japan: Student arrested who threatened to plant a bomb in Konami after losing a game

A high school student was arrested in Tokyo, Japan, after having threatened to set off a bomb at the headquarters of the video game company Konami.

The newspaper Yomiuri He indicated that the 16-year-old teenager would have made the threat between June 16 and 18 in the reviews section of an app repository.

“I’m going to blow up the headquarters of Konami“Wrote the frustrated teenager with problems in PES on his cell phone, as reported by the newspaper Mainichi.

The threat went further. “I am going to kill the people who work in Konami“, Published alleging that it was possible to carry out a terrorist act in Japan.

After being detained, the scholar admitted having made the threats that he said were the result of getting angry with Konami after losing a game due to connection problems.

These types of threats are not taken as a joke, especially in Japan. In July 2019, a man caused a fire in the animation studio Kyoto Animation en Kioto, leaving 36 dead.

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