Satoshi Nakamura Half a year from the shooting case, difficult investigation or new witness testimony

Satoshi Nakamura's shooting case for half a year Is it difficult to conduct an investigation?

It has been four days and six months since the death of a doctor, Satoshi Nakamura, who was shot in Afghanistan.

The local investigative authorities have arrested four men and listened to the circumstances, but it was found that they had released all because they could not obtain evidence to support their involvement in the case, and the investigation was difficult. Is expected.

On December 4, last year, in the state of Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan, Satoshi Nakamura (73 at that time), a local representative of Fukuoka's NGO “Peshawar Group” was shot by someone while traveling by car. I died.

Regarding the case, although several officials of the government information agency "National Security Bureau" interviewed NHK, the investigative authorities had arrested four men and heard the circumstances, and conducted a house search. He said he released all of them, saying that no evidence was available to support their involvement in the case.

In addition, the parties admitted that the case of Mr. Nakamura was one of the difficult terrorist cases to resolve, and admitted that there was no prospect of resolution of the case, and the investigation is expected to be difficult.

Witness the shot Male testimony

There are also new eyewitness accounts of the appearance of the man who shot Mr. Nakamura directly.

I witnessed Ashikura (42), who runs a store selling bread and other products near the site.

At the time of the incident, Ashikura-san was suddenly struck by Nakamura-san's car passing by at the scene when a couple of men came down from two suspicious cars that stopped in front of the store around 8 am on the day of the incident. He said he witnessed a shot.

At that time, men with automatic rifles and men with pistols split into two hands, and they shot each of Mr. Nakamura's car and subsequent cars with guards etc. I was ambushing in front of my store, and when Mr. Nakamura passed by, he shot from the store and the hotel next to him," he testified about the situation at the time.

In addition, the man who shot Mr. Nakamura was standing in front of Mr. Asikura, wearing a black coat up to the waist over white clothes and wearing a white shawl.

Investigators are also aware of this information and are looking at it as an important clue to identifying the offender.

Completion of picture book depicting Nakamura's activity Distribution postponed due to corona effect

A picture book depicting Mr. Nakamura's activities was recently completed to convey his achievements in Afghanistan.

This picture book is titled "Kaka Murad", which is one of the official languages ​​of Afghanistan and means "Uncle of Nakamura" in Dari. This picture book was created by a local NGO with the cooperation of JICA = Japan International Cooperation Agency. , I have been working on production since December last year after the shooting incident.

The storybook tells the story of Mr. Nakamura, who works at a clinic in eastern Afghanistan, working with residents to build a waterway, transforming the dried land into a lush land and giving hope to people.

Among them, Mr. Nakamura said, "100 years ago, Japan was also poor. It was not uncommon for me to sell my children because they were too poor. In some cases, I could not feed them." Encouragingly, it also depicts an episode in which he came closer to the feelings of those who suffered from hunger and illness.

We plan to publish more than 1200 picture books and distribute them free of charge to local kindergartens and elementary schools.

However, according to the NGO, due to the restrictions on going out due to the new coronavirus, it has been impossible to transport picture books from the lat to the west where the printing shop is located to the capital Kabul, and postponement of distribution to kindergartens and elementary schools is postponed. It means being forced.

"I am very grateful that Mr. Nakamura has done his best in Afghanistan. The children will grow up to be people like Mr. Nakamura in the future," said Xabi Mahdi, NGO representative and picture book author. I'm really looking forward to it," he says, and he also wants to wait for the restrictions on going out and send it to the children as well.