SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean authorities have charged an American livestreamer known for his aggressive stunts abroad with causing a “commotion” at a convenience store, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Ramsey Khalid Ismael, 24, known by his online pseudonym Johnny Somali, is a livestreamer who hurls provocative and offensive insults while traveling abroad, including to U.S. allies. South Korea And Japan.

Somalia will be prosecuted and will also be banned from leaving the country, a spokesman for the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office told reporters on Wednesday.

But the spokesman’s office said he was not taken into custody.

South Korea frequently imposes travel bans when there is a flight risk.

Somali, whose broadcasts often desecrate monuments and harass local residents, has been banned multiple times from various social media platforms and currently streams on Rumble, a livestreaming platform with looser moderation policies. Twitchanother popular live streaming platform.

In videos Somalia posted on Instagram last month, he is seen drinking alcohol at a convenience store and spilling instant noodles on a table before cleaning it up.

The video is no longer available on the YouTube channel.

The Somali also sparked outrage in South Korea for her behavior around the Peace Statue in Seoul, also known as the Comfort Woman statue, which commemorates the tens of thousands of Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese forces during World War II.

The video, which is still available on Rumble, shows Somalis kissing the statue, printing a photo of himself kissing the statue, and then showing the picture to passers-by in Seoul.

He later apologized, saying he was unaware of the statue’s significance, Agence France-Presse reported.

Yonhap news agency He stated that he was Somali He was beaten multiple times, including once by another live broadcaster in South Korea.

Authorities and locals have frequently condemned the overseas antics of Somali and many other “disturbing influencers”.

In Japan, they have been known to deceive ticket inspectors on trains, disrupt convenience stores, and harass passengers on the subway.

Last year, Japanese authorities arrested the Somali man on suspicion of trespassing at a construction site. Kyodo News agency reported. He also taunted Japanese passengers about the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

Stella Kim reported from Seoul and Mithil Aggarwal from Hong Kong.