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In this photo of July 19, 1995, Shoko Asahara , guru of the Aum sect, is led by the police to a Tokyo court / JIJI PRESS / AFP / Archives
The ex-guru of the sect Aum, Shoko Asahara, and 6 other ex-members of this dark organization Japanese, all sentenced to death for their responsibility in the attack on sarin gas in the Tokyo subway in March 1995, were executed Friday morning, the government announced.
The Ministry of Justice confirmed the hanging of Shoko Asahara (whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto), the founder and guru of the group, but did not give the identity of the other 6. A press conference is scheduled later in the day
This is the first time that the execution of former Aum Supreme Truth members has been announced. The likelihood of his being quickly taken to the gallows had increased recently with the displacement of several of them.
Shoko Asahara had been sentenced to death in 2006 and had been waiting in the corridors of the died like 12 accomplices involved in this sarin attack that killed 13 people and caused various, sometimes irreversible, ailments to 6,300 others.
Some 190 other members of the sect were also sentenced to various sentences in This attack, the worst ever known in Japan.
On March 20, 1995, according to a very thoughtful process, several members of the occult organization Aum Supreme Truth, created by Shoko Asahara, spread sarin gas in reams of subway converging on the administrative heart of the capital
They had deposited plastic bags filled with sarin gas in five trains of the Tokyo subway. Drilled by umbrella tips, the bags released the poison.
– 23 years of waiting –
No one immediately understood what was happening at this early hour, during peak period, while many pbadengers came out suffocating, without seeing anything, various subway lines of the lines.
Some time ago, during a kind of repetition of the effects of this gas, seven people had been killed in the central city of Matsumoto, in the center of the country, and 600 others had suffered various, sometimes definitive, ills.
In December 1999, the Aum sect officially recognized for the first time its responsibility in the attack on the Tokyo and Matsumoto metro . She then apologized.
The first capital punishment for the 1995 bombing was pronounced in September 1999.
On Friday, family members of the victims reacted:
Shoko Asahara, Guru of the Japanese sect Aum, October 1, 1990 / JIJI PRESS / AFP / Archives
"It has taken 23 years since 'Attempt for this sanction to be executed, unfortunately, the parents of my husband, killed in the bombing, died before, "lamented for the NHK public service Shizue Takahashi, the wife of a station employee died in the Attack and President of a Victims Association
Japanese law stipulates that death row prisoners must be executed within six months of the confirmation of their sentence, but in practice they often remain for years in prison. corridors of death.
sect was able to produce in a laboratory large quantities of sarin gas, a deadly product created by scientists under the Nazi regime in Germany in the late 1930s.
Before the attack on the Tokyo metro, which deeply shocked the country and left behind, Japan watched with a fascination mixed with anxiety and Aum grow in the 1980s and 1990s.The sect attracted up to 10.000 followers
The mystical leader Asahara was going then television shows on election campaign podiums to capture the attention of citizens, including young high-flying scientists, doctors, lawyers and other elite individuals.
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