In Japan, 7 members of the cult were executed, who committed the country's worst terrorist act 23 years ago. How was it

Attack

Attack, which is considered the most terrible terrorist attack in the history of Japan, was committed on March 20, 1995. The members of the cult then leave in the underground stations crossing the political district of Tokyo, bags pierced where there has a rare nerve-paralytic substance

Toxin hurts the victims in a few seconds: they begin to suffocate, some are blinded and paralyzed. As a result, the attack killed 13 people, 600 other people were injured.

In addition, during the following months, members of the cult tried several times to spread cyanide hydrogen in various metro stations.

Subsequently, a number of representatives of Aum Shinrikyo were arrested. 13 of them were sentenced to death, six others are serving life sentences.

Aum Shinrikyo

This cult, whose name means "higher truth", was initiated in the 1980s as a spiritual group. combines Hindu and Buddhist beliefs. Subsequently, the elements of the apocalyptic Christian prophecies were added to the cultural ideological ideal.

The founder of the group, Soko Asahara, also known as Chizuo Matsumoto, declared himself the Christ and the first "illuminated" of the Buddha's time. Japan in 1989, in its best years, has had tens of thousands of followers all over the world.

The group gradually became a paranoid Day of Judgment cult, and its members were convinced that the world would soon be destroyed by the World War. The cult representatives will survive.

Why the death penalty lasted 23 years

In Japan, death sentences are not enforced until the verdict of the court against all the accused and accomplices of the crime is not final.

The prosecution of cult members was completed in January of this year after the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of one of the cultists sentenced to life imprisonment.

Today, the cult leader is executed by Soko Asaharu and his six others. cousins ​​