It has been 24 years since the "poison curry incident" that killed four people in Wakayama City in 25 days.
The father of a high school student, who was damaged by the incident and became seriously ill, turned a flower to the scene and prayed.
On July 25, 1998, four people, including an elementary school student who ate curry and rice, died at the venue of the summer festival in Sonobe, Wakayama City, and 63 people became arsenic poisoning.
On the 25th, at the scene of the incident, Yasuo Sugiya, the father of a female student in the second year of high school and the vice chairman of the Victims' Association, visited the site of the incident and died. I turned the flower to.
In the case, Masumi Hayashi, a 61-year-old convict on death row who lived in the neighborhood of the scene, was charged with murder and other charges for mixing the highly toxic arsenous acid into the pot, and the death penalty was confirmed in 2009.
The death penalty has filed a complaint against her innocence, and in May last year she filed a second retrial in the Wakayama District Court, saying she was "not fully trialed."
Mr. Sugiya said, "It feels like yesterday, even though it's been 24 years. I've spent my time thinking that my daughter is alive since she was damaged. Why did she cause the incident? I still don't know, I want to know the motive. "