Japan police detain ‘ISIL-inspired’ teenager
The Japanese security forces have arrested a teenager on charges of killing a 13-year-old boy in what is perceived to be an ISIL-inspired murder.
According to reports on Friday, the police detained an 18-year-old boy a week after the naked body of a junior high school student, identified as Ryota Uemura, was found near a river in the eastern Japanese city of Kawasaki.
A bloods-soaked knife was also discovered near the corpse.
The police said the signs on the victim’s neck showed that the murderer tried to decapitate him.
Japanese weekly Shukan Shincho reported that the criminal was most probably imitating the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in beheading Uemura.
“Some investigators suspect (the criminal) watched Internet videos showing the execution of hostages by the [so-called] Islamic State (ISIL) fighters and sought to mimic them,” the magazine quoted an unnamed Japanese police source as saying.
The officials did not publicize the detainee’s name as he is legally considered a minor.
Arrest warrants were also issued for two other teenagers over their involvement in the cold-blooded murder.
The case has grabbed the limelight of the Japanese media as violent crime rarely occurs in the Asian country.
The arrest came after the ISIL terrorists decapitated two Japanese nationals in Syria last month.
On January 31, the ISIL released a video showing the decapitation of Japanese freelance journalist Kenji Goto.
The 47-year-old journalist and filmmaker went to Syria in October 2014 reportedly to try to secure the release of another ISIL hostage, Haruna Yukawa. Yukawa was apparently beheaded earlier in the month after Tokoy declined to pay a USD 200-million ransom to the terrorist group.
The ISIL terrorist group, with members from several Western countries, controls parts of Iraq and Syria, and has been involved in a series of heinous crimes against civilians and government forces in the two Arab countries.
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