The man who threw a bomb on the Japanese former PM Kishida gets 10 years in prison | News about politics
The court describes the attack as a serious challenge to democracy and is a significant danger to many people.
The court condemned a man who threw a homemade tube bomb on Japan Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida At an event in the 2023 campaign, punishing him in 10 years in prison.
Wakayama District Court said on Wednesday that Ryuji Kimura, 25, was aware of the potential for mortality in his attack, according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo. The judgment described the attack as a serious challenge to democracy and said that it is a significant danger to many people, Kyodo states.
Kimura was found guilty of attempted murder in the 1523 attack in Kishida in a small fishing port in the western city of Wakayama. He has also been charged with four more crimes, including a violation of the Law on Explosives and Other Weapons.
Kishida was unharmed in the attack, which came less than a year after the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe He was killed in July 2022.
“A severe punishment is needed to prevent copies, and it cannot be underestimated that it has seriously disturbed the electoral system, which is the basis of democracy,” said Judge Keiko Fukushima, according to the NHK Public Television Guide.
Kimura said at the introductory session of the trial in early February that he was not guilty of attempted murder, saying he did not intend to kill Kishida. He said he was dissatisfied with the Japanese electoral system and that he just wanted to attract public attention, targeting a famous politician.
Prosecutors sought a 15-year sentence, while the Kimura defense team claimed for three years because he denied the intention of killing Kishida, according to reports.
At the hearing during the trial, Kimurina’s lawyers said his “purpose was to acquire [public] Attention, “so his accusation should” cause injury “, not an attempt to kill, NHK said.
However, prosecutors allegedly called the incident “a vicious terrorist act” and said the attacker knew his explosive was deadly.
A crime associated with a weapon is in Japan rare because of Strict Laws on Weapons ControlBut there was a number of high nods and other attacks using domestic weapons and explosives.
