Shortly after midnight, a car drives in Japan's capital into a pedestrian. The driver speaks of a terrorist attack and declared that he had for an execution out of revenge.
Tokyo - In the Japanese metropolis of Tokyo, a motorist media has rammed according to reports, in a busy shopping area pedestrian, at least nine people were injured. The driver was arrested and told the police that he wanted to commit a terrorist attack, reported the Japanese news Agency Kyodo on new year's morning. Accordingly, the 21 called-Year-old to the crime as revenge for an execution, and left after the incident, which occurred shortly after midnight, no remorse recognize. Against him is now being investigated for attempted murder.
Tokyo: the driver was taken to the escape-proof
One of the injured was in a critical condition, such as Kyodo reported, citing police officials. The driver fled from the scene of the crime, but the police found him in a nearby Park and arrested. According to the report, the man told investigators that he wanted the pedestrians to kill.
it was Unclear at first whether the alleged anger of the husband against a single execution, or against the System of death penalty was addressed. As the third largest Economy in the world, Japan ranks as one of the few industrialised countries to retain the death penalty. Only last week, the conservative government had to death two convicted murderers executed in July, several members of the apocalyptic sect Aum Shinrikyo end of the strand, which had shocked 23 years ago, with a deadly poison gas attack in Tokyo's subway to the country.
International criticism of the death penalty makes the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to bounce off. Human rights activists have decried for years dealing with executions and prison conditions in Japan - so the death is not communicated to the candidate, the date of their execution. The prisoners Condemned to death, often live for years in solitary confinement. Since Abe took office in December 2012, 36 people have been executed.
dpa
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youbets.org Date Of Update: 02 January 2019, 00:04
