Fire in a multi-tenant building that killed three people Convicted of a former store manager with suspended sentence Hiroshima October 28, 20:54
Five years ago, in Hiroshima City, a multi-tenant building containing a maid cafe was burned down and three people including a male customer were killed in a fire. The district court sentenced him to a suspended sentence, saying, "Although the defendant's negligence is serious, the objective risk of a fire is not great."
In October 2015, a multi-tenant building containing a maid cafe was burned down in Nagarekawa-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City, killing three male customers and three female employees, and injuring three others.
Aiaki Takasawa, a 29-year-old former manager of a restaurant on the first floor of the building, fired the building with an alcohol spray and a gas burner to get rid of cockroaches near the building's garbage storage area. He was charged with fatal injury and misfire, and insisted that he was not guilty of "it cannot be said that the cockroach extermination caused a fire" in the previous hearings.
In a ruling on the 28th, Atsushi Tomita, the judge of the Hiroshima District Court, said, "As a result of expert appraisal, it was admitted that the defendant's act ignited a cardboard box at the site and caused a fire, and a gas burner near combustibles. The mistake of igniting with a cardboard is serious. "
On top of that, he said, "According to the appraisal experiment, the objective danger of a fire is not great, and the defendant has left the scene without noticing the ignition, and it is hard to say that he should face with a prison sentence." He sentenced him to three years'imprisonment and five years' suspended sentence.