袴田さん、８月に国と県提訴へ　検察・警察の責任追及―弁護団

　１９６６年に静岡県で一家４人が殺害された事件で再審無罪が確定した袴田巌さん（８９）の弁護団が３日までに、検察と警察の責任を追及するため、国と県に対し８月に国家賠償請求訴訟を起こす方針を会議で確認した。袴田さんが逮捕された８月１８日を目標とする。
　袴田さんに対しては静岡地裁が３月、刑事補償法に基づき、４７年以上にわたる身柄拘束の補償金として約２億１７００万円の交付を決定した。
　弁護団の小川秀世事務局長は、取材に対し「不当な拘束によって人生を奪われたことに対する損害は、刑事補償金では足りない。損害賠償を求め、冤罪（えんざい）の原因も明らかにしていきたい」と話した。（2025/04/03-11:21）

Lawyers for Iwao Hakamata, who was acquitted in a retrial for the 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture, plan to file a damages suit against the central and prefectural governments in August.
   They aim to take the legal action on Aug. 18, the date when Hakamata was arrested in 1966.
   Last month, Shizuoka District Court decided to grant Hakamata some 217 million yen under the criminal compensation law for his unjust detention for over 47 years.
   Hideyo Ogawa, secretary-general of the defense team, told reporters that criminal compensation is "not enough" for the damage caused by the unjust detention. "We'll seek damages and clarify the cause of the false charge," he added.
   Hakamata was arrested by the Shizuoka prefectural police on suspicion of robbery and murder and his death sentence once became final in 1980. He was detained for 47 years and seven months until his release in March 2014 after the district court granted him a retrial.