Japan executes the murderer of Akihabara, who killed seven people in the middle of the street in the electronic district of Tokyo

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Japan

has today executed the author of the

, one of the deadliest and most notorious events in recent years in the country, in which seven people died and ten were injured in 2008 in the busy commercial center of electronics in Tokyo .

Tomohiro Kato

, also known as the "Akihabara murderer", has been executed this Tuesday at the age of 39

, as established by Japanese law, in the capital's detention center where he was imprisoned, as reported in a press conference. press the Japanese Minister of Justice, Yoshihisa Furukawa.

Kato was sentenced to death in 2011 for

with a truck and

, in an incident that shocked the country.

Minister Furukawa has said that Kato attacked "indiscriminately, leaving seven dead after exhaustive preparation", in a "cruel" case that "significantly influenced Japanese society" and explained that he signed the execution order on the 22nd "after considering it carefully".

14 years ago

The event took place on June 8, 2008, Sunday.

Kato broke into Akihabara, a busy area of ​​the metropolis specializing in technology, video games and manga, after half past twelve noon with a truck, and rammed the crowd on its main street, which that day was closed to traffic.

After running over five people, three of whom died, Kato got out of the truck and

-by, four of whom were killed.

The event shocked Japan, which prohibited until 2011 that this area was again pedestrianized on Sundays and is one of the most remembered incidents in the country's black chronicle globally.

Kato was

and in 2015 the sentence became final after the Supreme Court of Japan rejected the last possible appeal of the defense, which argued that the prisoner was not in full control of his mental faculties at the time. time of the events due to severe psychological stress.

At the time of the events, Kato was working at an auto parts factory in Shizuoka province, west of Tokyo, which was undergoing a downsizing process.

According to local media, three days before the event, he left the factory screaming, fearful of losing his job because he couldn't find his overalls.

The next day he no longer went to work.

Kato announced his intentions through several messages sent to a website specializing in mobile content.

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