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On March 20, 1995, suddenly rushing into the busy Saringas subway at the rush hour of the Japanese capital. 13 people die, more than 6000 are injured. The sects "aum", until now little known, are responsible. Their founder has now been executed.
(dpa) His face represents the trauma of a whole nation: 23 years after the devastating attack of toxic gases in the Tokyo metro The founder of the Endemic sectarian "Aum Shinrikyo", Shoko Asahara, was executed in Japan. This was announced by a Japanese government spokesman on Friday. In addition to the 63-year-old Asahara, six other members of the sect were executed according to the Kyodo News Agency. It is the first executions under the law of March 20, 1995.
The police guard Tokyo prison, where the founder of the late Aum Shinrikyo sect, Shoko Asahara, was executed on Friday. (Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters)
At the time of the morning commute, members of the sect stabbed several plastic bags with sarin, releasing the lethal nerve gas. The act occurred just under the governmental district of the Japanese capital. 13 people died, more than 6000 were wounded. The large number of victims is explained by the fact that only one milligram of the phosphorus compound can cause respiratory paralysis and cardiac arrest within minutes.
Asahara was arrested on May 16, 1995 after the first poison gas attack in the world. At the end of an unprecedented trial marathon in Japanese legal history, a Tokyo court sentenced to death the half-blind guru and twelve of his followers in 2006 for killing and killing 27 others. Asahara and the other members of "Aum Shinrikyo" ("the highest truth") have since been on death row awaiting execution. The sectarian founder, whose real name was Chizuo Matsumoto, remained silent or ambiguous throughout his trial.
In January of this year, the final trial of the members of the sect was concluded. In March, 7 out of 13 people sentenced to death were transferred from their detention center in Tokyo to other prisons. In Japan, it is a sign that their execution is approaching. The third largest economic nation in the world is one of the few industrialized countries that maintain the death penalty.
With the subway attack, the sect wanted to prevent a planned police attack on its headquarters at the foot of Mount Fuji. Critics complained later that the authors were labeled as inhumane monsters instead of analyzing the context of the disaster in more detail. Thus, it has not been sufficiently investigated what led to the crimes and in what social context it happened. The Japanese company missed an opportunity to learn from the case.
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