Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with murder for last year’s deadly arson attack on Kyoto Animation, the family-run studio behind a string of internationally beloved anime films and television series.
The suspect, Shinji Aoba, 42, was detained in the immediate aftermath of the fire, but local authorities had to wait months for him to recover from serious burns before formally placing him under arrest.
The Kyoto Public Prosecutors Office then kept him in confinement for six months for a mental evaluation. Thirty six people died in the attack, and 33 were injured, many with severe burns.
The incident is thought to be Japan's largest mass killing since World War II. Prosecutors said Wednesday that Aoba had been charged with five.
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