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January 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Walked into police station minutes before New Year
- 1995 attacks killed 12, left thousands ill
By
David Richards
Last updated at 2:07 PM on 1st January 2012
This undated file picture shows a former member of Japan’s Aum Supreme Truth doomsday cult Makoto Hirata, 46, who was arrested in Tokyo on January 1, 2012 after almost 17 years on the run
A former member of a Japanese doomsday cult that staged deadly gas attacks on the Tokyo subway in 1995 turned himself in to authorities after more than 16 years on the run.
Makoto Hirata, 46, who has been on a police wanted list since May 1995, showed up at a police station in Tokyo only minutes before the New Year.
He told police he turned himself in because he wanted a sense of closure after being on the run for such a long time.
He was one of three former Aum Shinri Kyo cult members still at large after a series of crimes by the group.
The cult’s founder, Shoko Asahara, whose real name is Chizuo Matsumoto, had his death sentence confirmed in 2006.
Simultaneous attacks with sarin nerve gas on five Tokyo subway trains during rush hour on March 20, 1995, killed 12 people and made thousands ill.
The attacks, with pictures of bodies lying across platforms and soldiers in gas masks sealing off subway stations, shattered the country’s self-image as a haven of public safety.
Hirata was arrested immediately after he turned himself in on suspicion of involvement in the abduction of a notary office clerk in Tokyo in 1995, the Kyodo new agency said.
Police also suspect Hirata, who joined the cult in about 1987, may have been involved in the 1995 shooting of the chief of the National Police Agency.
Hirata (centre, with head bowed down), is escorted earlier today by police officers from a police station in Tokyo
Officers stand guard as the car containing Hirata is driven away towards another police station
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