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Six former members of the Aum Supreme Sect convicted of murdering sarin in the Tokyo subway in 1995 were executed by hanging on the morning of Thursday, the Japanese press reported.
Justia's ministry contacted by AFP, did not comment on the information, but announced a press conference with Minister Yoko Kamikawa this Thursday.
Earlier this month, Shoko Asahara, the founding guru of Aum Supreme Truth, and six other members of the sect were also executed.
Shoko Asahara – whose real name was Chizuo Matsumoto – had been on death row for twelve years with 12 other people involved in the attack, which killed 13 people and caused injuries, some irreversible, in another 6 300.
190 other members of the sect were sentenced to prison terms for the attack, the worst in Japan.
On the morning of March 20, 1995, carrying out a well-defined plan, several members of the supreme sect, the sect created by Asahara, spread the sarin gs through the metro streets of the capital.
The sarin was placed in plastic bags in five compositions of the Tokyo Metr, that after being pierced by the ends of the umbrellas, they let escape the gas.
At first no one understood what was happening that morning, in the middle of the rush hour, when several pbadengers began to choke, without seeing anything, at several stations of the lines attacked .
seems to have been a repeat of the attack in Tokyo, seven people died in the central city of Matsumoto, where 600 others suffered several injuries, some definitive.
The sect was able to produce large quantities of sarin gs in a laboratory, reproducing a deadly product created by Nazi regime scientists in Germany in the late 1930s.
In December 1999, worship Aum admitted for the first time, his responsibility in the attacks on Tokyo and Matsumoto, and apologize.
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