容疑者、群衆襲撃も計画　「騒いで逃げるので断念」―京王線刺傷・警視庁

　京王線の電車内で乗客１７人が刺されるなどした事件で、殺人未遂容疑で逮捕された職業不詳服部恭太容疑者（２４）が「当初は群衆を襲撃しようと考えていたが、騒いで逃げられると思い断念した」と話していることが４日、捜査関係者への取材で分かった。警視庁調布署捜査本部は、同容疑者が勤務先を退職した６月ごろから、周到に襲撃計画を進めていたとみて調べる。
　捜査関係者によると、服部容疑者は「会社を辞めて死にたかったが、死ねなかった。死刑になろうと思った」と供述している。１０月３１日のハロウィーンを狙って東京での群衆襲撃を考えたが、８月に小田急線車内で乗客が男に切り付けられた事件を知って計画を変更したと説明。「電車なら（乗客に）逃げられない」と話しているという。（2021/11/04-11:06）

The suspect in a knife and arson attack that injured 17 people on a Tokyo train on Sunday has confessed that he initially planned on attacking crowds, sources familiar with police investigations said Thursday.
   The 24-year-old suspect, Kyota Hattori, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, said that while he originally planned to attack crowds, he abandoned the idea as he thought it would cause a commotion and people would flee, according to the sources.
   The Metropolitan Police Department believes that Hattori had been preparing for an attack since around when he quit his job in June.
   According to the sources, Hattori said in interrogations that although he wanted to die after quitting his job, he was unable to do so. He was quoted as saying that he wanted to receive the death penalty.
   While Hattori had considered attacking crowds in Tokyo on Halloween at first, he said that he changed his plan after learning about an incident in August in which a man attacked passengers with a knife and attempted to set fire to cooking oil on a train of Odakyu Electric Railway Co.'s Odakyu Line in Tokyo.