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Former Aumist Guru Shoko Asahara, sentenced to death for his responsibility for the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995, was executed on Friday morning. claimed the Japanese media. He was hanged, more than 23 years after the facts. The Ministry of Justice did not immediately confirm this information given by the Japanese TV and news agencies. Shoko Asahara is the first of 13 convicts whose execution has been announced. The likelihood of execution of former members of the Aum sect was increased in recent times with the displacement of several of them. Shoko Asahara (whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto) had been sentenced to death on death row years ago, along with 12 accomplices involved in the sarin attack that killed 13 people. and caused various evils, sometimes irreversible, to 6,300 others. On March 20, 1995, according to a very thoughtful process, several members of the occult organization Supreme Aum Truth, created by Shoko Asahara, spreading sarin gas in subway trains converging on the administrative heart of the capital. Nobody understood immediately what was happening at this early hour, during the peak period, when many pbadengers were coming out suffocating, without seeing anything, various subway mouths of the lines. Prior to this bombing that shocked the country, Japan watched with a fascination mingled with anxiety and grow Aum in the 1980s and 1990s. The mystical leader Asahara then went from TV shows to campaign podiums to capture the the attention of citizens, including young top scientists, doctors, lawyers and other elite individuals. (Belga)
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