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A 30-year-old Japanese man, nicknamed the “Twitter killer,” was sentenced to death Tuesday by a Tokyo court for the murder of nine people he met online, dI have a judicial official.
Takahiro Shiraishi was “sentenced to death,” the source told AFP, without giving further details.
At trial, Shiraishi admitted that he had murdered and dismembered eight women and one man, between the ages of 15 and 26.
Shirashi’s lawyers had asked for life in prison, claiming that the victims, who expressed their suicidal tendencies on social media, had consented to be killed.
This allegation, even objected to by the accused himself, was rejected by the court.
“None of the nine victims asked to be killed, not even tacitly,” said the judge, according to the public television channel NHK.
The magistrate qualified the facts as “Extremely serious” and considered that the “dignity” of the victims had been “trampled”.
Shiraishi captured his victims on the social network Twitter, telling them that he could help them carry out their suicide plans and even die at his side.
Shiraishi was also tried for having dismembered his victims and having stored their remains in refrigerators in his small apartment in Zama, a southwestern suburb of Tokyo.
On October 31, 2017, police discovered 240 human body fragments stored in refrigerators or toolboxes covered in kitty litter to hide the smell they gave off.
The last execution in Japan – that of a Chinese man responsible for the murder of four people from the same family in 2003 – took place a year ago.
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