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Japan: Ex-Aum guru sentenced to death for sarin gas attack was executed (media)
Tokyo – Former Aum sect guru Shoko Asahara sentenced to death for his responsibility in the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995, was executed on Friday morning, the Japanese media claimed.
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 sentenced executions announced.
The likelihood of execution of ex-Aum members convicted had increased in recent times with the displacement of several
Shoko Asahara (whose real name was Chizuo Matsumoto) had been sentenced to death years ago and had been waiting on death row for 12 accomplices involved in the bombing. sarin who had killed 13 people and caused various ills, sometimes irreversible, to 6,300 others.
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 subway trains converging on the administrative heart of the capital.
No one understood immediately what was happening at this early hour, during the peak period, while many steps sagers came out suffocating, without seeing anything, from various subway mouths of the targeted lines.
Before this bombing that shocked the country, Japan had watched with a fascination mixed with anxiety grow and grow Aum in the 1980s and 1990.
Mystic leader Asahara went from television to campaign campaign podiums to capture the attention of citizens, including young high-flying scientists, doctors, lawyers and other individuals belonging to the United States. elite.
(© AFP / 06 July 2018 00:27) <! –
(AFP / 06.07.2018 02:28)
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