The aggressor told the police on Sunday “that he wanted to kill someone to be sentenced to death”, according to police that he arrested him on Sunday.
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A 24-year-old man was quickly arrested Sunday, October 31 for attempted murder in the wake of his knife attack on the train on which he also started a fire, in the middle of Halloween, a very popular festival in Japan.
Eighteen people were hospitalized, according to a report from the police and firefighters. A man in his seventies, stabbed in the chest, is in serious condition. The aggressor “told the police he wanted to kill someone to be sentenced to death”, according to a spokesperson for the police interviewed Monday by AFP. Government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno on Monday denounced an “excruciating and brutal” act.
A video of a witness posted on Twitter showed the assailant sitting alone on the train just after his attack, nervously defiantly smoking a cigarette, waiting for police to come and stop him. He was dressed in a purple frock coat and a green shirt with a patterned tie, which was reminiscent of the appearance of the “Joker” in the world of Batman, famous comic book (American comic strip) often worn in movies.