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Taro Toporific wrote:Crazy? Hmmm, let's see...He has been in virtual solitary for 10 years as his "trial" blasts forward for conclusion in 2025.
..."All he can do is grunt 'un'. It's more like a sound, not a voice," said lawyer Takeshi Matsui, adding that Asahara had sometimes suddenly broken into laughter or gone into a spasm in the 120 times the lawyers had visited him... Asahara was incontinent, wore diapers and used a wheelchair...
<--lawyer Takeshi Matsui. Who looks crazy?
TOKYO - Japanese authorities raided the offices Saturday of the doomsday cult that carried out the deadly 1995 nerve gas attacks on Tokyo's subways.
The goal was to pre-empt any violent reaction to Friday's Supreme Court decision upholding the death penalty against Shoko Asahara, the cult's founder and former leader.
Marked Trail wrote:On the morning of 20 March 1995 in the Tokyo subway system...
A member of the doomsday cult behind a deadly Tokyo subway gas attack and other crimes turned himself in to police after 17 years on the run, an official said Sunday.
A Tokyo metropolitan police official said Makoto Hirata, a member of Aum Shinrikyo, conspired with several other members in kidnapping a notary official in 1995 and causing his death. The victim, Kiyoshi Kariya, then 68, was the brother of a follower trying to quit the group.
Hirata, 46, who had been on the run since the summer of 1995, turned himself in at a Tokyo police station and was detained early Sunday, the police official said on condition of anonymity.
The cult also released sarin nerve gas in Tokyo's subway system in 1995, killing 13 people and injuring more than 6,000 in Japan's deadliest act of domestic terrorism.
The cult had amassed an arsenal of chemical, biological and conventional weapons in anticipation of an apocalyptic showdown with the government.
Police say Hirata and other cult members kidnapped Kariya off a Tokyo street and confined him at the group's tightly guarded commune at the foot of Mount Fuji. They allegedly used anesthetics on Kariya to get him to talk about his sister, who escaped from the group after being pressed to donate her land. Kariya died from a drug overdose, police said.
According to court testimony, cult members burned Kariya's body in an incinerator inside the commune and disposed of the ashes in a nearby lake to destroy the evidence.
sublight wrote:Since it's been over 15 years, hasn't the statue of limitations expired on these charges? Or have they been keeping additional charges on ice just in case something like this happened?
CrankyBastard wrote:Way most see it is, this guy turns himself in, another trial period of x years to hold off any hangings of those already convicted.
Greji wrote: I personally think they should also drop Asahara through the trapdoor and let him dance the chicken, whether he is sane, or not.
legion wrote:However I think the death penalty is never justified, even with Asahara.
Japanese police turned away one of the nation's most wanted fugitives when he tried to surrender at Tokyo police headquarters on New Year's Eve after nearly 17 years on the run, reports said Tuesday. A police officer at the main entrance of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police thought it was a bad joke when Makoto Hirata, a former member of the Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult, responsible for the 1995 nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway, showed up. According to major media, he approached the officer around 11:35 pm Saturday and said: "I am Makoto Hirata. I am turning myself in." But the officer dismissed him as a fake and urged Hirata to go to a local police station some 700 metres (yards) away.
Mike Oxlong wrote:Japan police turned away surrendering Aum fugitive
American Oyaji wrote:I wonder how bad he's gonna get reamed for that move.
wagyl wrote:I am amazed that these guys really were still out there.
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