Japan's Joker assailant wanted to 'kill lots of people'-police

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Kyota Hattori, 24 and dressed in multi-colored clothing as the Joker, was arrested on the spot and later told investigators “I wanted to kill lots of people, I wanted the death penalty,” the police spokesman said.

from Batman and dressed as him to carry out a Halloween attack on a Tokyo train “wanted to kill lots of people” and planned his moves over months, buying a knife to use in the internet, police and media said on Tuesday.

Shown in video footage sitting on a seat in the train carriage calmly smoking a cigarette prior to the attack, Hattori purchased the knife he used over the Internet and was carrying some 4 litres of lighter fluid in plastic bottles when he headed into Tokyo, which was filling with costumed partiers for Halloween, media reports said.

Apparently choosing Halloween because he knew Tokyo would be crowded, Hattori left his hotel in the afternoon and took a train to the Shibuya district, popular with young people and famous for its Halloween street party, where costumed revelers gather to walk around and drink.

 

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