Police officers investigating the case on the scene. (Photo: VNA) Alberto was accused of "intentionallyattacking and pushing the victim, who was no longer able to resist into theriver”.
At the trial starting on May 16, Alberto deniedthe charge of murdering the Vietnamese student, T.T.A, in Osaka. His lawyerargued that the victim was the first to attack and that the defendant was only"justifiably defending".
However, Osaka's prosecutors presented clear evidence that thedefendant intentionally attacked when the victim was completely unresistant,and then pushed the exhausted victim into the river. This is the main cause ofthe victim's subsequent death. Therefore, the prosecutors insisted on thesentence of 18 years in prison for the defendant.
According to the indictment, on August 2,2021, Alberto, a 26-years-old, unemployed man who has no fixed place ofresidence, beat and kicked the victim, T.T.A, an international student ofVietnamese nationality, into the Dotonbori River in Namba area in Osaka,causing the victim's death on the evening of the same day. Three days later, Osaka police arrested the murder and launched legal proceduresagainst him.
The case angered the Vietnamese community in Japan.
The final sentence is scheduled to beofficially announced on June 6./.
VNA
