Ex-Saudi diplomat referred to prosecutors over indecent act at nightclub

He is suspected of touching the breasts of the woman in her 20s over her clothes at the club in Roppongi

At the time, he had immunity under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which grants diplomats exemption from arrest.

Soooooo, how much time and money are Japanese authorities going to waste on this in light of the fact that NOTHING is going to come of this on the Saudi end as he had Diplomatic Immunity? Just curious as this is a "he said, she said case" at the end of the day.

… the man told officers who arrived at the scene that he only touched her arms. 

Summer, Roppongi, 2:50 a.m., woman in her 20s

I have trouble believing him.

Mr Kipling

The same has all the other male humans were attempting to do in that club, have you ever lived in West Asia, known to the US as the middle east.? Blondes have more fun!

Seems like an agenda in play, esp. when u consider other more serious assaults committed by people from a more favored country weren't even reported.

LegrandeToday 06:01 pm JST

Seems like an agenda in play, esp. when u consider other more serious assaults committed by people from a more favored country weren't even reported.

I don't know what you are getting at but if crimes are going unreported, that is on the victim.

Wow. That’s only allowed by drink Japanese business men I guess.

Jesus. Whatever.

Someone didn't tip or pay his bill!!

Okay lets look at this from a different angle,

Saudi = $$$ I find it hard to accept that the motive is not , yes vote me down pleaeeeeese but it is .

What doe a lady in her 20's doing hanging out with a man in his 30 in a club? drinking and having fun of course but when alcohol, flirting, and body parts flashing are involved anything could happen from touching to kissing, to who knows what it happens all time some gets rejected others are just laughed at and brushed off then the right ones get lucky. and that is the nature of the business.

A friend of mine worked with people from Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, some of them had 2 or more wives, lots of kids. When they did go to US, almost every night they go to strip houses/brothels 'the expensive ones'. Don't understand why muslim countries didn't surpass China or India in population.

Just because she wasn’t wearing a hijab doesn’t make her fair game!

repulsive creep!

Whatever the rights and wrongs of this, and they are mostly wrongs, most of the people posting here have never lived in a Middle Eastern Muslim country. If they had, and had seen the 'plane loads of blondes from Russia and its ex colonies flying into the less popular airports such as Sharjah they might understand why this kind of behaviour is deemed acceptable. Some blonde ladies have made themselves quite rich spending time in the Middle East. As far back as 1979 I saw a guy from a wealthy ME country ask a DJ in a disco in Bahrain to make him a series of cassette tapes of the evening's music, which he did, and was presented with a fabulous wristwatch with small loose diamonds in an annulus around the bezel. We checked and priced it at $20,000, in 1979. Different mindset.

He is suspected of touching the breasts of the woman in her 20s over her clothes at the club in Roppongi

Ridiculous. Looks like a shakedown, on the assumption that every Saudi is rich.

A club in Roppongi was so deserted that there were no witnesses? There were plenty of witnesses and no he said she said about it. Also , I am sure that Japanese that don't live in Saudi Arabia have the right not to be treated like they do.

What a waste of every ones time. Really

Saudi Arabia is the most hypocrite and arrogant country in the world... And they are trying to buy, bribe and threaten their way forward in the world. Thinking they will be accepted as long as they are rich and spread the money. There's one rule for the rich and ruling family and friends, and another for the common people.

A former Saudi Arabian diplomat was referred to prosecutors Friday for allegedly touching a woman's breasts at a nightclub in Tokyo earlier this year,

his response?

"In my country we touch any woman's breast we please! What is this sexual assault laws? Release me minions!"

Even if the Diplomat had said that he touched her breasts or even had sex without consent, nothing would have happened.

Diplomats can get away with anything and everything.

This is going nowhere. He's not even in the country.

Japan does know what the Vienna Convention is …?

A waste of taxpayer money.

I can see charging that girl who jumped off that building with a crime even though she died. It could be a deterrent. Same as train companies charging families if someone in that family commits suicide by train.

But this guy had diplomatic immunity. he could stand in front of the police station with a big sign that says iIdid it. And nothing can be done but sending him home.

Besides,

at the club in Roppongi around 2:50 a.m. 

At a dark nightclub and both quite possibly drunk, it's reasonable to believe he thought it was her arm.

Correction

a big sign that says correction I did it!