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🚇 Tokyo subway sarin attack

Tokyo sarin evidence and trial record

Arrests, chemical identification, prior Matsumoto linkage and judgments that left little mystery.

Authorship is among the best-evidenced facts in this archive.

The page records that chemistry was identified, not how an agent is prepared.

Exhibits

Exhibit A

20 March crime scenes

Physical

Five trains and station platforms produced a simultaneous incident map aimed at Kasumigaseki. Treatment numbers came from hospitals the same morning.

Exhibit B

Chemical identification

Forensic

Authorities identified sarin as the agent. The public record is the name of the substance and the fact of use, not a process.

Exhibit C

Kamikuishiki raids

Archive

Seized documents, equipment and later testimony tied the group’s facilities to the crime plan. Details that would instruct are omitted here.

Exhibit D

Matsumoto 1994 linkage

Inquiry

The prior sarin case became corroboration of group capability and intent once the investigations merged.

Exhibit E

Trial judgments 1996–2006

Testimony

Confessions, accomplice evidence and court findings named order-givers and participants across the Aum crime series.

Exhibit F

2008 death-toll survey

Document

A police compensation survey added a thirteenth official death, correcting first-week English wires that still say twelve.

How strong is the record?

Authorship
95

Convictions and executions rest on a thick trial record.

Agent identification
92

Sarin was identified; this page does not go further.

Prior-crime linkage
88

Matsumoto and Sakamoto are part of the same judged enterprise.

First-week death count
70

Twelve was incomplete; 13 (2008) and a 2020 fourteenth death show why figures must be dated.

The evidence file is strong enough that mystery scores belong near the floor.

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