Man murdered people because he was angry about pet euthanization
Details have emerged about the possible motives of Takeshi Koizumi, the 46-year-old man who carried out stabbing attacks at the homes of former Health Minitry bureaucrats:
Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. said Sunday that Koizumi is believed to have sent an e-mail message to the major TV station shortly before turning himself in to police. The message read, “The uprising this time is not a pension terror attack,” TBS said.
The joint investigative team of the Tokyo and Saitama police has looked into the possibility that discontent over pensions could be behind the high-profile cases, as both former vice health and welfare ministers were involved in Japan’s pension policy.
“This is the revenge for the killing by a healthcare center of my family member 34 years ago,” the e-mail message said. “Even now, they keep killing as many as 500,000 innocent pets every year. They should know that if they commit needless butchery, it will come back to them,” it said, according to the broadcaster.
Koizumi’s elderly father has told the press that their family briefly kept a stray dog as a pet when Takeshi was in elementary school, but they eventually had to take it to an animal shelter to be put down because it was too loud.
Takeshi Koizumi seemed to have had the time to search for the homes of former Health Ministry officials, but it seems he didn’t do enough research about what organizations are responsible for pet euthanization. Local governments run facilities that put down stray dogs, not the Health Ministry.
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