Jan 25, 2024 at 6:17 AM Update: 25 minutes ago
The man who set a fire in a Japanese animation studio in July 2019 will receive the death penalty. This was reported by the Japanese television channel NHK. The fire killed 36 people and injured 32.
The fire was the deadliest crime in Japan in almost two decades. Shinji Aoba set fire to the popular studio Kyoto Animation, better known among fans as KyoAni, by pouring gasoline on the floor right at the entrance and igniting it. He was also seriously injured.
The now 45-year-old Aoba admitted in September that he started the fire in Kyoto. According to the Japanese news agency Jiji he said in court at the time that he had not thought that so many people would die. “I now think I have gone too far,” he is said to have said.
His lawyers argued that he was not guilty because he was not accountable. According to the prosecutor in the case, Aoba was convinced that the studio had stolen an idea for an anime from him.
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Flames burst from animation studio in Kyoto after arson
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2024-01-25 05:17:00
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