In the Japanese city of Tsurugasima (site prefecture), a teenager picked up a stranger at the exit from the toilet’s cabin and drew it with a knife. This is reported by the Japan Today edition.
According to the police, the 15-year-old schoolboy and the 53-year-old victim were not familiar. The attacker detained, he was suspected of an attempt to murder.
The incident occurred on May 29. The teenager picked up a man in the toilet of the Wakaba Walk shopping center and saw a 17-centimeter knife in his leg. The criminal threw an instrument directly to the floor and ran away: later it was found near the toilet.
In the police, they said that the schoolboy confessed to the attack. Despite this, his motive is not yet clear.
The total number of crimes committed by adolescents from 14 to 19 years in Japan, decreases in recent years. One of the loudest cases of the adolescent attack occurred in 2007, when the young man brought a female head into the police station and said that he killed his mother. Then they told the police that he was treated with a psychiatrist.