地震直後にうその救助要請　ＳＮＳ投稿の男逮捕―石川県警

　能登半島地震の発生直後、被災者を装い救助を求めるうその文章をＳＮＳに投稿したとして、石川県警サイバー犯罪対策課などは２４日、偽計業務妨害容疑で、埼玉県八潮市大瀬、会社員金丸凌大容疑者（２５）を逮捕した。「大勢からの反応が欲しくて投稿した」と容疑を認めている。能登半島地震で虚偽の投稿を巡る逮捕は初めて。
　逮捕容疑は１月１日午後７時ごろ、地震の被災者を装い救助を求める文章をX（旧ツイッター）に投稿し、石川県警の捜索活動などを妨害した疑い。
　同課によると、金丸容疑者は地震当日、スマートフォンの地図アプリで調べた輪島市の住所をXに載せ、倒壊した家屋に家族が挟まれているかのような投稿を十数回繰り返した。
　投稿を知った県外在住者が輪島市役所に通報。警察官が出動したが、家屋倒壊は確認されず、住民も無事だった。（2024/07/24-17:12）

Ishikawa prefectural police on Wednesday arrested a 25-year-old corporate employee for allegedly posting fake rescue requests on social media shortly after the Jan. 1 Noto Peninsula earthquake in central Japan.
   Ryota Kanamaru, a resident of the city of Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, has admitted the allegations, saying that he wanted to get a lot of responses.
   It was the first arrest made over false information posted on social media in the aftermath of the massive earthquake that rocked the peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture on New Year's Day.
   Kanamaru is suspected of posing as an individual affected by the earthquake and posting requests for help on X, formerly Twitter, at around 7 p.m. on Jan. 1, hampering rescue efforts by police and other authorities in the quake-hit areas.
   He is believed to have made a dozen posts that day, claiming that his family was trapped under a collapsed house, while transcribing an address in the Ishikawa city of Wajima from a smartphone map, police sources said.