青葉容疑者の勾留、最高裁も是認　京アニ放火、１５日まで延長―地裁

　３６人が亡くなった京都アニメーション第１スタジオの放火殺人事件で、殺人などの疑いで逮捕された青葉真司容疑者（４２）について、最高裁第３小法廷（宇賀克也裁判長）は５日付の決定で、同日までの勾留の取り消しを求めた弁護人の特別抗告を棄却した。京都地裁は同日、１５日までの勾留延長を認める決定をした。
　京都府警は、全身に大やけどを負い入院していた青葉容疑者について、「勾留に耐え得る程に回復した」と判断し、先月２７日に逮捕。京都地裁は６月５日までの勾留を認めた。弁護人は準抗告したが、地裁は「病状が回復に向かい、訪問者などを介した証拠隠滅や逃亡の恐れがある」などと退けた。
　地裁は勾留を認めた理由を説明する勾留理由開示の期日を９日に指定した。公開の法廷で行われるが、青葉容疑者が出頭するかは不明。（2020/06/05-16:29）

The Supreme Court on Friday backed a district court's approval of the detention of a severely injured suspect for the deadly arson attack last year at a studio of Kyoto Animation Co., also known as KyoAni by anime fans.
   The top court's Third Petty Bench, under the presidency of Justice Katsuya Uga, dismissed a lawyer's special appeal against Kyoto District Court's decision to allow public investigators to detain the suspect, Shinji Aoba, 42, until Friday.
   On the same day, the Kyoto court approved an extension of his detention until June 15.
   The Kyoto prefectural police served an arrest warrant on Aoba on May 27 on charges of setting fire to the No. 1 studio of the anime production company in the western Japan city of Kyoto and murdering 36 people there, judging that the suspect, who suffered severe burns himself in the arson attack, had recovered enough to withstand detention.
   Kyoto District Court, in rejecting the lawyer's quasi-appeal against its approval of Aoba's detention through Friday, said there are fears that the suspect may run away or destroy evidence of his crime through the help of visitors, as his condition is improving.