Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007
Kyodo News
A man intended to set off a bomb on a Tokyo commuter train using homemade explosives, prosecutors said Monday as his trial opened at the Tokyo District Court.
Yoshihiro Terasawa, 38, facing charges of violating the explosives control law, has admitted to making and possessing the explosives but has denied intending to detonate them, saying, "I was not going to harm people or their assets."
One of the prosecutors said in an opening statement that Terasawa "was thinking about detonating the explosives on a commuter train on Seibu Railway Co.'s Shinjuku Line, on which the defendant's nearest station is located, after reading about a method for manufacturing the explosives on the Internet."
Prosecutors alleged that Terasawa was dissatisfied about not having a stable job and came to envy people with steady employment. They said he came up with the idea of making explosives after reading on the Internet about the deadly 2005 suicide bombings in London.
He is charged with making about 92.5 grams of triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, in his home by mixing acetone and hydrochloric acid. He also conducted a test explosion, the prosecutors said.
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