Martin Antonenko
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Poison Gas Attack In The Subway...!
On March 20, 1995, five members of the religious fundamentalist sect "Ōmu-Shinrikyō" (in English about "Om teaching of truth")...
...disposed of newspaper-wrapped plastic bags containing the nerve toxin sarin on five commuter trains from three Tokyo subway lines meeting at Kasumigaseki Station during the morning rush hour.
Immediately before getting off, the perpetrators use umbrellas to poke holes in the eleven bags that have been distributed in order to release the liquid sarin.
The escaping fumes spread in the affected subways and about 15 subway stations.
The attack killed a total of 13 people (nine immediately, one later the same day, one two days later, two more after a few weeks), there were around 1,000 injured, 37 of them seriously (5,000 reported to hospitals). In 2010, the police increased the number of victims to 6,252.
The reasons for the relatively low number of fatalities are the relatively poor quality of the sarin and the ineffective method of spreading.
The assassins of the terrorist group, usually referred to as the "Aun sect" in this country, are expected at the exit of the station by like-minded people with flight vehicles and are initially able to escape.
But the Japanese police go to great lengths to find the perpetrators (and other cult members) and gradually catch them all!
In the aftermath of the sarin attack, twelve members of the Ōmu Shinrikyō are sentenced to death...:
Among them are the assassins and their backers Masato Yokoyama and Yasuo Hayashi.
Furthermore, the manufacturers of the sarin, the two researchers Seiichi Endō and Masami Tsuchiya and the physician Tomomasa Nakagawa are sentenced to death.
Finally, sect leader Shōkō Asahara...
...condemned to death as the mastermind behind both this assassination attempt and another gas attack in Matsumoto...:
And what is little known in this country:
There were no pardons! The Japanese judiciary made Asahara and his cronies wait 23 years for their execution...!
The death sentences against Asahara - despite a plea for clemency from the Dalai Lama...
...and six other members of the sect were executed on July 6, 2018, against the remaining six convicts on July 25, 2018.
They died on the gallows - the next picture was broadcast on Japanese television and shows Asahara immediately before his death...:
A number of other - not direct - participants in the crime were sentenced to light sentences.
On March 20, 1995, five members of the religious fundamentalist sect "Ōmu-Shinrikyō" (in English about "Om teaching of truth")...
...disposed of newspaper-wrapped plastic bags containing the nerve toxin sarin on five commuter trains from three Tokyo subway lines meeting at Kasumigaseki Station during the morning rush hour.
Immediately before getting off, the perpetrators use umbrellas to poke holes in the eleven bags that have been distributed in order to release the liquid sarin.
The escaping fumes spread in the affected subways and about 15 subway stations.
The attack killed a total of 13 people (nine immediately, one later the same day, one two days later, two more after a few weeks), there were around 1,000 injured, 37 of them seriously (5,000 reported to hospitals). In 2010, the police increased the number of victims to 6,252.
The reasons for the relatively low number of fatalities are the relatively poor quality of the sarin and the ineffective method of spreading.
The assassins of the terrorist group, usually referred to as the "Aun sect" in this country, are expected at the exit of the station by like-minded people with flight vehicles and are initially able to escape.
But the Japanese police go to great lengths to find the perpetrators (and other cult members) and gradually catch them all!
In the aftermath of the sarin attack, twelve members of the Ōmu Shinrikyō are sentenced to death...:
Among them are the assassins and their backers Masato Yokoyama and Yasuo Hayashi.
Furthermore, the manufacturers of the sarin, the two researchers Seiichi Endō and Masami Tsuchiya and the physician Tomomasa Nakagawa are sentenced to death.
Finally, sect leader Shōkō Asahara...
...condemned to death as the mastermind behind both this assassination attempt and another gas attack in Matsumoto...:
And what is little known in this country:
There were no pardons! The Japanese judiciary made Asahara and his cronies wait 23 years for their execution...!
The death sentences against Asahara - despite a plea for clemency from the Dalai Lama...
...and six other members of the sect were executed on July 6, 2018, against the remaining six convicts on July 25, 2018.
They died on the gallows - the next picture was broadcast on Japanese television and shows Asahara immediately before his death...:
A number of other - not direct - participants in the crime were sentenced to light sentences.
