A man who was found collapsed on a street in Gifu City on Friday, with a knife wound to his abdomen, and who said he had been attacked by a stranger, made the story up, police said Sunday.
According to police, the man, who is in his 40s, was found at around 7 a.m. by a passerby, NTV reported. A blood-stained knife was found near him. The man was conscious and taken to hospital where he told police a stranger had stabbed him.
The man told police his assailant was dressed in black and wearing a white face mask, but street surveillance camera footage showed no one in the area at the time of the reported attack.
Police said that when they questioned the man in hospital on Saturday, he admitted that he had stabbed himself.
© Japan Today
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garypen
I'm curious if it was a failed suicide attempt, which is very sad, or just a way to get attention, which is kinda pathetic.
DanteKH
A man who stab himself has no problems stabbing others... Maybe he just felt the urge to stab, and since nobody was in the area, he did it to hymself...
Cephus
"Man who said he was stabbed by stranger admits wounding himself."
He should cover every cost involved on his rescue
tamanegi
Reminds me of this case not far from me a few years back. Not a regular occurrence in Japan but certainly not rare.
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-fakes-attempted-murder-of-himself-after-%E2%80%98feeling-exhausted-from-work%E2%80%99
Peter Neil
ok, perhaps he was looking for sympathy or attention?
Nick O.
This is absolutely NOT true. The vast majority of suicidal people pose absolutely no threat to anyone but themselves. Often, they will be so deeply depressed that they genuinely believe that killing themselves will make the people in their lives happy in the long run.
Stigmatizing people who need help as homicidal is toxic to society.
Mr Kipling
How many is that in the past couple of years? At least 4 have made JT.
Eat the left
Where's Fighto to suggest he be hanged to finish the job?
NCIS Reruns
Actually such phony crimes are not uncommon, and there's a word for them in Japanese: 狂言犯罪 (kyogen hanzai). The most famous was about 20 years ago, when a man phoned the self defense force to claim he had seen North Korean frogmen storming ashore from a submarine at a beach near Yokosuka. The bill for the havoc he sowed was said to come to the tens of millions of yen.