Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Winnipeg free May fear of revenge grips Japan cult crimes aum Shin i the cult accused of carrying out the nerve Gas attack on Tokyo has been linked to other crimes kidnapping suspected of kidnapping opponents As Well As members who tried to weapons suspected of making researching biological weapons and studying nuclear and Lase Type owns a russian military explosives suspected of placing an explosive near the Home of a scholar who criticized the drugs suspected of making stimulant drugs and administering them to Are of injecting knockout drugs to believers who tried to Kole cautious probe of sect cuts risk of disaster associated press Tokyo the weeks went police appeared to be making Little Progress in their probe of a doomsday it want even Clear they knew the whereabouts of the groups elusive then the pieces slipped into place like a japanese wooden riders on subway trains the scene of terror two months earlier in a nerve Gas attack smiled with strangers and shared newspapers announcing the arrest of Shoko Asa head of the aum Shin i Kyo and 14 other cult Asahara will be charged with directing the March 20 nerve Gas at which killed 12 people and injured on Tokyo police the investigation culminated As it had begun eight weeks earlier with hundreds of police in full riot gear sawing their Way into the doomsday Cults Headquarters near mount Fuji at Why did it take police eight weeks to bring in the obvious Leader of a secretive cult with a his tory of concocting dangerous chem ical brews particularly at police proceeded cautiously because of accusations by the cult of religious Perse but prosecutors also insisted that police wait to build an airtight Case against Asahara before arresting that they arrest All cult Mem Bers who might try to and that they ensure that the cult possessed no More nerve Accord ing to the Asahi weekly despite some grumbling Over the slow Pace of the japanese authorities were praised yesterday for having avoided a disaster like the authorities raid in Texas two years ago that ended in the deaths of More than 85 members of the Branch Davidian by arresting members of the cult one by police avoided the possibility of suicides by the they also protected people from the threat of another nerve Gas said Akira professor of Crimi Nal Law at Osaka International uni in police and prosecutors usually work to build a very Strong Case before bringing charges a Factor that helps explain the coun try astonishing 99 per cent conviction rate in cases that come to police in Japan can Grill suspects for As Long As 23 Days without formal and often do so without lawyers summer launch promo Page 21 and is runic i copy should read bather s rim Gic is not available error a Viive in our or Sint mfr Rel my me on item e or oni Union to our Eaton save the jets with every Purchase of Pickerel Well donate1 to the jets Gimli fish Market associated press Tokyo from the Neon it streets of the entertainment districts to the walled off Palace Tokyo resembled a City under siege dreading re Venge attacks following the arrest of a dooms Day cult thousands of police and soldiers trained in chemical warfare were deployed throughout Tokyo after yesterdays arrest of Shoko Asa the bearded guru accused of master minding the March 20 nerve Gas attack on to Kos this is not the said defence chief Tokuichiro in what Kyodo news service called the larg est mobilization of Security forces since the officers and soldiers patrolled Down town subway stations and searching for suspicious hours after the arrest at the Cults Mountain a package bomb exploded at the Tokyo governors injuring an no link was established Between the cult and the but it added to the gnawing sense of fear Felt by Many City officials said they didst know who sent the bomb to Yukio which was delivered to his residence Friday and automatically forwarded to City dramatic raid As Yoshima supervises the police in charge of investigating the during yesterdays dramatic which was televised live police sawed their Way into a three Storey building in the ramshackle Rural compound where Asa Hara was holed they pried open locks on a Maze of barricaded finally Clos ing in on Asahara the Leader of the aum Shin i Kyo cult was being held at Tokyo metropolitan police which were believed to be a prime target in the subway All five trains that had nerve Gas parcels planted on them were bound for Kasum Igasaki Sta directly below police upon his arrival at the the purple Robed guru who demanded such de Votion from disciples that they were made to drink his Bathwater told police doctors not to touch saying not even his followers were allowed Poison Gas May not have been the Only thing the cult allegedly brewed in its japanese police say officials reportedly plan to pursue charges against the cult for transforming its compound into a methamphetamine production Centre and Selling the stimulant to organized crime for 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