Tomohiro Kato, the man who drove in an intersection in the
Akihabara district of Tokyo, killing 7 people and injuring several other
persons, was transferred, on Tuesday, from police custody to prosecutors.
According to The Associated Press, he was taken to a cell at
the Tokyo prosecutors’
office in order to be interrogated about the Sunday attack. Authorities said the
25 year-old factory worker didn’t oppose his arrest but he wasn’t sorry for
what he had done.
Evidence showed that he planned the attacked, posting
several messages on the Internet, some of them just minutes before he went to
the streets to randomly kill people.
He wrote more messages as he drove the 60 miles from his
home in Susono, in the foothills of Mount Fuji, to Akihabara, a district of
Tokyo known as the centre of Japan's
geek subculture. When he arrived there he crashed his car into a group of
shoppers and then got out of the vehicle with a long dagger and stabbed
everyone in his path.
According to The Associated Press, police searched his apartment
and found packages full of knives which they confiscated.
Osamu Namai, the company executive from the factory where
Kato used to work, said that, two days before he went in Akihabara, Kato was so
upset that his uniform was missing that he started screaming. Even though his
co-worker went to find him a new one, Kato was already gone. Namai said that
was his only outburst.
AFP reported that Kato described himself in his online
postings as an ugly man without hope and friends, being used to act like a good
guy.
“I'm lower than trash because at least the trash gets
recycled. I'm accustomed to playing a good guy. Everybody was tricked so easily.”
Apparently Kato is desperate man in need of attention, but
that doesn’t diminish the gravity of his actions. He knew exactly was he was
doing.
The police didn’t file any charges against him. As he was
transferred to prosecutors, they would have to file the charges in 20 days or,
by Japanese law, release the suspect.
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