蘇州母子襲撃事件、２３日判決　動機への言及焦点―中国

　【上海時事】中国江蘇省蘇州市で昨年６月に日本人母子らが襲撃され、中国人女性が死亡した事件で、被告の５０代の男に対する判決公判が２３日に同市中級人民法院（地裁）で開かれることが分かった。在上海日本総領事館が１８日明らかにした。判決では量刑とともに、犯行の動機などについてどのように言及するか注目される。
　事件は昨年６月２４日に発生。日本人学校のスクールバスを停留所で待っていた日本人母子が男に刃物で切り付けられて負傷し、バスの案内係だった中国人女性の胡友平さんが死亡した。中国当局は男を拘束し、１１月に起訴。今月９日には初公判が開かれ、岡田勝駐上海総領事らの傍聴が認められた。（2025/01/18-08:02）

A Chinese district court will hand down Thursday a sentence over a case in which a Japanese woman and her child, and a Chinese woman were attacked by a man in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, eastern China, last June, people at Japan's Consulate-General in Shanghai said Saturday.
   In the sentencing hearing, attention will likely be paid to how the court will mention the motive of the attacker as well as to the severity of the sentence.
   In the June 24, 2024, assault case, the Japanese woman and her child were injured by the man in his 50s with a knife while they were waiting for a Japanese school bus at a bus stop. The Chinese woman who was a guide on the bus was killed in the attack.
   Chinese authorities indicted the suspect in November. The first hearing in the man's trial was held on Jan. 9, with Japanese Consul-General in Shanghai Masaru Okada and others allowed to attend it.
   The Chinese side has said that the incident occurred accidentally, and has not mentioned the man's motive for or background on the attack, including whether he attempted to kill Japanese.