Japan executes leader sect sarin attack

tokio - In Japan, the former leader of the sect Aum Shinrikyo, who was behind the attack with the nerve gas sarin in the Tokyo metro in 1995, was put to death. Shoko Asahara, is the first of thirteen sect members sentenced to death who were executed, confirmed the secretary of the cabinet.

According to local media, six members of the sect were executed. This is done in Japan by means of suspension.

On March 20, 1995, during the morning rush hour, the sect members used the sharp points of umbrellas to poke bags of sarin leak in five underground cartons. Thirteen people were killed and more than 6,000 people were injured.

The sect Aum Shinrikyo was convinced that the end of time was approaching and sought the violent confrontation with the Japanese state. The sect was founded in the eighties by Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, and had about ten thousand followers.

A year before the attack in the Tokyo subway, the sect also executed an attack in Matsumoto with sarin out with the aim of killing some judges. In addition, eight people died and hundreds of people were injured.

The Supreme Court of Japan rejected the last appeal of Asahara against the death sentence in 2006. With the arrest of the last three suspects of the attack with nerve gas in 2012 came after seventeen years an end to the manhunt.

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