Nannyatropolis Pocky Poisonings

The Nannyatropolis Pocky Poisonings was a poisoning spree at Nannyatropolis Anime and Comic Convention where strawberry and chocolate-flavored Pocky, sold by Glico was laced with lethal rat poison, 11 people fell ill and caused one fatality on August 5th 2019.

Background
The Nannyatropolis Anime and Comic Convention is a popular convention in North Supernannya held every year in the city.

The only victim was Andrei Ming (Chinese: 明安德烈, Ming ān dé liè, Russian: Андрей Минг) was a 21-year old Chinese-Russian man and traveled to the convention with friends as a apart of a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure cosplay group, he was dressed up as DIO at the time of the poisoning.

Simon Forresters showed annoyance with the cosplayers attending and the night before the convention, he sneaked in and stole two batches of Pocky sticks, a popular Japanese candy made by Glico, cut the wrappers and filled it with rat poison then emptied it and then repeated it, then resealed the boxes.

Motive
Simon Forresters was a former truck driver and was known as a far-right activist known for his hatred of anime and Japanese culture aswell as migrants, even saying if someone liked anime, they hated America and called them “traitors” and was annoyed with the cosplayers in general, even saying that “only one of the kids died” and he should not be charged.

Killed
Andrei Ming, 21, The only fatality at the convention, started to vomit and convulse and even started coughing up blood, Died before he could make it to a hospital.

Reaction
The poisoning caused a panic in the convention with attendees throwing their Pocky in the trash and and the stall owner, who also fell ill after trying one of the sticks, put up signs warning attendees not to buy any of the Pocky sold.

It also stirred outrage due to Simon being remorseless and even calling Andrei a ”little greedy chink man” and he wanted those cosplayers to get sick.

Eyewitnesses and Reaction
(I started crying, My son was dead) ~ Andrei’s father, Bohai Ming

(Why did this have to happen, what did Andrei do?)” Andrei’s mother, Khristina Babikov.

I vividly remember my mother forbidding me and my siblings from buying Pocky sticks when the poisoning happened ~ Toshio Hiwatari.