Satoshi Uematsu, a former employee, has admitted carrying out the stabbing rampage. FMTNews JapanMurder
TOKYO: The man accused of the 2016 murder of 19 disabled people at a Japanese care home goes on trial Wednesday in a case that ranks among the country’s worst mass killings.
The 29-year-old is accused of breaking into the facility and moving room to room, searching for victims. Nineteen people were killed and 26 injured – half of them seriously. In interviews with Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun daily he said those with mental disabilities “have no heart”, claiming “there’s no point in living” for them.“I don’t think I’m innocent but it wasn’t something punishable by death.”
But some critics feel the country still falls short at fully integrating people with disabilities, and the government last year was forced to admit data on hiring people with disabilities had been padded to meet quotas. In the rambling letter, he presented a vision of a society in which those with serious disabilities could be euthanised with the approval of family members since “handicapped people only create unhappiness”.
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