Sagamihara knife attack
When knife attack Sagamihara were on July 26, 2016 Japanese Sagamihara , Kanagawa Prefecture , about 50 kilometers southwest of Tokyo , 19 people were killed in a home for the disabled. The act was carried out by a 26-year-old who had worked at the facility until February 2016.
In terms of fatalities, the attack is one of the worst single acts of violence in Japan since the end of World War II . He claimed more lives than the poison gas attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995 (13 deaths), in which, however, over 6,000 people were injured.
background
The crime took place in the Tsukui Yamayuri-en ( 津 久 井 や ま ゆ り 園 ), a facility for people with intellectual disabilities on the Sagami in the Chigira district of the Midori district of Sagamihara. At the end of April 2016, 149 residents between the ages of 19 and 75 lived there.
Sequence of events
During the night of Tuesday, July 26, 2016, at around 2 a.m. local time (5 p.m. UTC the previous day) , the attacker entered the facility through a window and stabbed mostly sleeping people with a knife. In addition to the 19 people killed, another 26 people were injured.
The fatalities are nine women and ten men between the ages of 18 and 70.
Perpetrator
The attacker is Satoshi Uematsu, 26, who was employed at the facility until February 2016. After the crime, he drove to the police in his car, surrendered and was arrested. On February 19, 2016, the perpetrator was forcibly taken into clinical treatment after voicing fantasies about the killing of disabled people. So he sent a letter to the Japanese Parliament in which he offered to kill disabled people. On March 2, 2016, he was released from compulsory treatment because the treating doctors considered him harmless. In 2020 he was sentenced to death .
Coordinates: 35 ° 36 ′ 49 ″ N , 139 ° 12 ′ 47 ″ E
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Tokyo knife attack stabbing , on theguardian.com, accessed July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Knife attack in Japan, man kills at least 19 people , on focus.de, accessed on July 26, 2016.
- ↑ Letter by man accused of mass stabbings carried eerie warning , on asahi.com, accessed July 26, 2016.
- ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/japan-todesstrafe-massenmoerder-pflegeheim-1.4846813