Arsonist Sentenced to Death for 2019 Anime Studio Fire
A man has been sentenced to death in Japan for causing the deaths of 36 people and injuring 30 more when he set the Kyoto Animation building on fire in 2019 claiming the studio had plagiarized his work.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 A Japanese court has sentenced a man to death for killing 36 people in an arson attack in 2019.
00:06 Prosecutors charged Aoba Shinji with murder and arson after he used gasoline to set fire to Kyoto Animation Studio,
00:13 sparking Japan's worst mass killing in almost 20 years. Over 30 others were injured in the blaze.
00:19 Aoba claimed that the studio had stolen his ideas and that he couldn't be held responsible for his actions due to a mental disorder.
00:26 The judge rejected his plea, ruling that he was fully competent.