SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean authorities have indicted a U.S. livestreamer known for offensive stunts overseas, accusing him of causing a “disturbance” at a convenience store, prosecutors said Wednesday.

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

A spokesperson for Seoul’s southern district prosecutor’s office told reporters on Wednesday that the Somali man would be tried and also banned from leaving the country.

However, he is not in custody, the spokesperson’s office said.

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

Somali, whose broadcasts often involve the desecration of monuments and harassment of local residents, has been repeatedly banned from various social media platforms and currently streams on Rumble, a live streaming platform with looser moderation policies than Ticanother popular live streaming platform.

In videos Somali posted to Instagram last month, he appears to be drinking alcohol at a convenience store, where he pours instant noodles onto a table before cleaning it.

The video is no longer available on his YouTube channel.

Somali also sparked outrage in South Korea over 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.

A video still available on Rumble shows Somali kissing the statue, printing a photo of himself kissing it and then showing the photo to passersby in Seoul.

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

Yonhap News Agency reported that Somali was beaten several times in South Korea, including once by another livestreamer.

Authorities and locals have frequently condemned the actions of Somalis and many other “harmful influencers” abroad.

In Japan, they are known for cheating train ticket inspectors, disrupting convenience stores and harassing subway passengers.

Last year, Japanese authorities arrested a Somali man on suspicion of trespassing at a construction site. Kyodo news agency reported. He also mocked Japanese travelers about the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

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