A JFA leader (the Japanese Football Federation) was arrested at an airport in Paris and sentenced to 18 months in prison for seeing children’s pornography images on a flight, AFP told AFP a court source.
“The facts were discovered by the airplane crew, which warned after finding that the convict was looking at children’s pornography images on the plane,” the Bobigny Court Prosecutor’s Office needed near Paris.
Masanaga Kageyama, JFA’s technical director, was arrested during a scale at Charles de Gaulle Airport. He traveled from Japan to Chile, according to the French newspaper Le Parisien.
The Coat of cooking condemned him on Monday (6) to 18 months in prison with conditional suspension and 5,000 euros of fine (R $ 31 thousand) by importation, possession, recording or observation of pornographic images of a minor under 15 years.
Your conviction is accompanied by a prohibition of exercising any activity in contact with minors for ten years. It was also forbidden to enter French territory during the same period.
In addition, France included its name in the judicial archive of authors of sexual infractions.
The leader is responsible for the implementation of measures that help reinforce Japan’s football teams, including the selection, as well as the training of coaches and the education of young players.
Kageyama was a professional J-League player and coach of several J-League clubs. He was also a manager of Japanese teams under-20, under-19 and under-18.
According to Le Parisien newspaper, the flight attendants surprised him while looking at the images on his notebook, in the preferred class of an Air France flight. At this point, the convict assured that these were photos generated by artificial intelligence.
A journalist from Le Parisien, present at the hearing on Monday, said that, before the court, the 58-year-old man recognized the facts and expressed feeling ashamed, saying he did not know that it was forbidden in France.
Arrested on Thursday as he got off the plane, he was placed in provisional arrest during the weekend until his attendance on Monday before the court. After his conviction, he was released.
