Four years after the tragic Kyoto Animation arson attack that took 36 lives and injured 32, prosecutors have announced they will be seeking the death penalty for the accused.The man at the center of the case, Aoba Shinji, was charged with murder and arson after setting a Kyoto Animation studio on fire, claiming that the studio plagiarized his work. The attack was the deadliest in Japan since the end of World War ll. The prosecutors’ announcement, published in NHK World-Japan, stated that they seek the death penalty for Aoba, as he clearly planned and committed the attack with the intent to kill (evidenced by the use of gasoline as well as the several unused knives later found on his person). Aoba’s defense has claimed that he was suffering from a serious mental disorder at the time of the crime and therefore cannot be held liable.At the time of the attack, 70 people were present in the studio, of whom 36 were killed and 32 injured. Aoba himself caught fire and almost succumbed to his injuries, delaying his arrest by almost a year as he recuperated. Aoba was indicted in December 2020, with his trial beginning in September 2023. Aoba has admitted to committing the crime, but his defense has entered a plea of not guilty due to Aoba’s cited mental instability at the time of the attack. He had previously been arrested for robbing a convenience store at knife point in 2012.
Four years after the tragic Kyoto Animation arson attack that took 36 lives and injured 32, prosecutors have announced they will be seeking the death penalty for the accused.
The man at the center of the case, Aoba Shinji, was charged with murder and arson after setting a Kyoto Animation studio on fire, claiming that the studio plagiarized his work. The attack was the deadliest in Japan since the end of World War ll. The prosecutors’ announcement, published in NHK World-Japan, stated that they seek the death penalty for Aoba, as he clearly planned and committed the attack with the intent to kill (evidenced by the use of gasoline as well as the several unused knives later found on his person). Aoba’s defense has claimed that he was suffering from a serious mental disorder at the time of the crime and therefore cannot be held liable.
At the time of the attack, 70 people were present in the studio, of whom 36 were killed and 32 injured. Aoba himself caught fire and almost succumbed to his injuries, delaying his arrest by almost a year as he recuperated. Aoba was indicted in December 2020, with his trial beginning in September 2023. Aoba has admitted to committing the crime, but his defense has entered a plea of not guilty due to Aoba’s cited mental instability at the time of the attack. He had previously been arrested for robbing a convenience store at knife point in 2012.
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