Chapter 742: Handshake Will Cut People Incident!

Zhu Zimo rubbed his chin and thought thoughtfully: "Mr. Qiu Yuan is really a first-class good at writing this kind of song." I want to learn from him. ”

"Teacher Zhu Zi, in fact, I think you have more potential in this area. Akimoto-sensei is great, but you're younger. Mayu Watanabe said.

Zhu Zi snapped his fingers: "What Ma Youyou said is quite right." I also feel that the future is mine. ”

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After returning to Tokyo, Zhu Zi had a rather pleasant and relaxed month.

But this calm was quickly shattered by one thing.

A very important event took place at the handshake on the 25th.

The handshake party is a fan event often held by AKB48, and it is mainly divided into "national handshake party" and "individual handshake party": the handshake ticket for the national handshake party is included with the purchase of the first version of the CD, and the members are usually divided into multiple columns for the participants to choose, and the individual handshake party is through the purchase of the theater CD online, and the members who wish to shake hands are selected in advance. In the past, although there were about 10 guards and staff on guard at the handshake meeting, they were responsible for checking the hands of participants and asking them to remove their hand ornaments, but in order to shorten the waiting time, personal belongings were usually not checked. The handshake in the incident was a national handshake meeting, and the two injured members, Rina Kawaei and Ana Iriyama, were both in the sixth column. The other three members of the column are Ryoka Oshima, Asuka Kuramochi, and Aki Takajo. The handshake was held at the Iwate Industrial Culture Center with a total of 47 participants and 10 columns for those who purchased AKB48's 33rd single "Shinjin Current" or 35th single "Go Forward". The handshake will not begin until after the small performance at the same venue at 1 p.m. and is scheduled to end at 9 p.m. The number of visitors is about 5,000. Regarding the security measures for the handshake, King Records, the organizer of the handshake, said that about 100 guards and staff in total were on guard to check the participants' hands before shaking hands, and that the inspection of personal belongings would cause controversy and make it difficult to hold the event continuously, so they did not conduct special inspections, while AKS, the operator of AKB48, said that it was a random inspection.

When he was in elementary school and middle school, Umeda's classmates accused Umeda of being suave and gentle, but at the same time described him as having been angry for no reason, and he was a member of the athletics club and won the second place in the Iwate Prefectural Tournament. After graduating, he took care of his frail mother, and all the money he earned from his part-time job was used for family expenses. Umeda was then relocated to Osaka Prefecture due to a relatively high salary, and from mid-December 2012 to late March of the following year, he was assigned to the construction site by a manpower dispatch company in Suita City as a traffic guard, and moved into a dormitory in the same city. During his time in Osaka, he was diagnosed with a developmental disorder by a psychiatrist due to mental instability, and upon his return to Aomori Prefecture, he received a Level 2 mental health welfare handbook distributed by the authorities. Subsequently, he worked for a security company for a short period of time, and in the first public judgment, the prosecutor found that he had been dismissed from the security company in January 2014. Umeda was once accused of being an AKB48 supporter, but according to her mother, she never saw any AKB48 CDs or handshake tickets in the home, but there were doubts about whether he was an AKB48 supporter, but later said in an interview with TBS TV that her son was not an AKB48 supporter. Umeda's friends said that he used to like heavy metal music and hard rock and other intense music, so the image is bright and popular, and AKB48, a national idol group, should be his hate. Umeda lived with his mother and uncle and rarely went out except for meals and walks. The day before the incident, Umeda left her residence on a bicycle on the pretext of walking and lost contact.

On the day of the incident, AKB48 held a national handshake party in Iwate, although there were nearly 100 staff members in charge of security work at the venue, and there were about two staff members next to them, and there were also staff members who were responsible for checking whether the participants were hiding dangerous goods, Tomonobu Togasaki, director of the B48 Customer Center Department, said that the murderer did not have any hand-held items at the time, but suddenly took out a 50-centimeter saw from the inside of his jacket and waved it, although the staff once grabbed the murder weapon with their bare hands, but the murderer still injured two members, Kawaei Rina and Anna Iriyama, and the three injured were immediately sent to the hospital, and the murderer was subdued by other staff on the spot and transferred to the police for processingThe police arrested the assailant on charges of attempted homicide.

Since the injured members were in the queue closest to the entrance, the Iwate Prefectural Police believed that it was a random attack rather than a premeditated attack. The assailants were accused of secretly bringing into the venue a tote-like object suspected to be a murder weapon, and the saw used as the murder weapon was foldable, with a blade of about 25 centimeters long and a knife about 8 centimeters long and 2 to 3 centimeters wide on the back of the knife. The prefectural police also said that Kawaei and Iriyama were injured in the head and right hand, and the staff member was slashed on his left hand, while AKB48 operator AKS said differently about the location of the injury, saying that Kawaei's right finger and Iriyama's right little finger were both fractured and lacerated and required emergency surgery, and neither of them was in danger of life, and there were also media reports that Iriyama's head was also injured, while the staff member suffered a fracture of his left hand and underwent surgery for up to 3 hours.

The two were initially panicked when they were admitted to the hospital, but when they calmed down, they were worried about what would happen to their handshake in the future. The next day, the two injured members were discharged from a hospital in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, and returned to the East, when a large number of reporters gathered at Tokyo Station and Ueno Station, and according to the accounts of passengers boarding the Shinkansen, the members got off early at Omiya Station to avoid confusion. Five days after the incident, AKB48 chief supervisor Minami Takahashi made his first appearance on a TV program after the incident, stating in the music program "Music Station" that Sakae Kawa and Iriyama are still recuperating.

At the time of the incident, supporters at the venue kept reposting relevant information on the Titter, and even reported that Kawaei was bleeding from the head, and pointed out that there were female supporters in the venue crying and screaming, and some said that the members needed help to even walk. Due to the severity of his injuries, member Takahashi Akari was unable to tell who was Iriyama and who was Sakae Kawa, but Ryoka Oshima, who saw the same scene and the two injured members, said that she felt that the world was spinning because she was too frightened at the time.

Satoru Umeda confessed to his crime during the interrogation, saying that he had never met the two injured members, but simply wanted to kill, "no matter who he killed", and later added that as long as he was a member of AKB48, he did not make a lot of noise during the interrogation, but he did not intend to apologize or reflect, he said that his motive for committing the crime was that he had been very irritated recently, and confessed that the saw used as the murder weapon was taken from home, put it in a tote bag and mixed into the venue, and his mother also said that the saw used for pruning trees suddenly disappeared.