The court describes the attack as a serious challenge to democracy and has posed a significant danger for many people.
A court sentenced a man who launched a house pipe house for former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a campaign event in 2023, sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
The Wakayama district court said on Wednesday in the decision that Ryuji Kimura, 25, was aware of the death potential in his attack, according to the Kyodo news agency in Japan. The decision described the attack as a serious challenge to democracy and said it was a significant danger for many people, according to Kyodo.
Kimura was found guilty of attempted murder during the attack on April 15, 2023 against Kishida in a small fishing port in the western town of Wakayama. He was also accused of four other crimes, including violations of explosives and other weapons.
Kishida was unscathed in the attack, which intervened less than a year after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was murdered in July 2022 on the campaign track.
“Severe sanctions are necessary to prevent copies, and it cannot be underestimated that he has seriously disrupted the electoral system, which is the basis of democracy,” said judge Keiko Fukushima, according to the public broadcaster NHK .
Kimura, during an opening session of the trial in early February, argued not guilty of attempted murder, saying that he did not intend to kill Kishida. He said that he was not satisfied with the Japanese electoral system and that he did not want to attract public attention by targeting a famous politician.
The prosecutors had asked for a 15 -year sentence while Kimura’s defense team had discussed for three years because he denied having the intention of killing Kishida, according to information.
During the hearings during the trial, Kimura lawyers said that her “goal was to win [public] Please note, “his accusation should be” inflicted on injuries “that does not try to murder, said NHK.
However, prosecutors would have called the incident “malicious terrorist law” and said the striker knew that his explosive was deadly.
Crime linked to firearms is rare in Japan due to strict firearm control laws, but there has been a series of high -level knives and other attacks using firearms and homemade explosives .
