JAKARTA: A Frenchman caught trespassing on a military base in Indonesia has confessed he was playing the wildly popular smartphone game Pokémon Go when he accidentally strayed off course, police said.
Twenty seven-year-old Romain Pierre was trying to catch virtual “pocket monsters” during an evening run when he wandered onto the high-security compound, West Java police spokesman Yusri Yunus told AFP.
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