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TOKYO.- Japan performed this Friday the ex-leader of a Japanese sect and six other group members who perpetrated an attack with sarin gas Tokyo subway in 1995, killing 13 people and damaging the myth of public security in the country.
The Supreme Truth Sect or Aum Shinrikyo, which mixed Buddhism and Hindu meditation with apocalyptic teachings, perpetrated several crimes, including simultaneous attacks on sarin gas on trains Tokyo Metro during rush hour in 1995. This nerve gas was originally developed by the Nazis.
The images of bodies, many of them dressed in costumes, scattered along the wharves, hit the Japanese and left room for measurements. of public safety, such as the removal of opaque dumps that remain in effect until today.
In addition to killing 13 people, the attack caused injuries to at least 5,800 people, some permanently.
Chizuo Matsumoto, known as Shoko Asahara, was the first to be hanged according to the media, interrupting his usual schedule. . The Ministry of Justice later confirmed the execution of the seven.
"I think it's good that he was executed," said Shizue Takahashi, whose husband was a subway worker who pulled a pack of sarin from a train and is dead. "The parents of my husband and my parents are already dead, I think it would be unfortunate not to have heard the news of his execution."
Asahara, a 63-year-old chubby and partially-blind yoga instructor, was sentenced to gallows in 2004 on 13 charges, including subway gas attacks and theft. Other crimes including at least a ten people.
He pleaded not guilty and never testified, but he chatted and made inconsistent statements in court during the eight years of his trial. In total, 13 members of the sect were sentenced to death for more than 20 years of trial, which ended in January 2018.
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