5400 x 3649 px | 45,7 x 30,9 cm | 18 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
24. März 1995
Ort:
Aum Shinrikyo Office, Moscow, Russia
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Russian disciples of the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo meditate in the Moscow office of the cult on March 24th 1995, three days after five members of the cult carried out a sarin-gas attack on the crowded Tokyo subway in Japan. On March 20th 1995 Aum Shinrikyo cult members placed plastic bags of deadly sarin-gas inside crowded subway trains in Tokyo. They then punctured the bags with the sharpened tips of their umbrellas. The gas killed 13 and injured approximately 6, 000 men, women and children. At the time of the attack it was estimated that Aum Shinrikyo had 10, 000 members in Japan and 30, 000 in Russia. A legally blind Shoko Asahara founded Aum Shinrikyo during the mid-1980’s in Japan and was arrested in 1995. After an eight-year trial he and 12 Aum Shinrikyo members have been sentenced to death by Japanese courts. Shortly after the Tokyo attack the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office investigated the Moscow branch of Aum Shinrikyo and closed its Russian and Moscow branches. In 2000 Aum Shinrikyo renamed itself Aleph, no longer following Asahara and claims to renounce violence. On June 15th 2012, Japanese police caught Katsuya Takahshi, the last fugitive wanted in connection with the cult’s 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Takahshi’s capture ended a 17-year manhunt in Japan. Photo by Chuck Nacke
