Wanted terrorist turned away from Tokyo police station

Published 5 January 2012

One of Japan’s most wanted men was sent away from a police station in Tokyo on New Year’s Eve after he tried to turn himself in; Makoto Hirata, a former member of Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult that perpetrated the 1995 Sarin gas subway attacks, is wanted in connection with the kidnapping and death of a civil servant whose sister attempted to leave the cult; Hirata was arrested only after he walked to another police station; the officer at the first station did not believe Hirata, thinking it was a prank, and instructed him to go to another station

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