Junzō Okudaira

Junzō Okudaira (奥平 純三, Okudaira Junzō), (born February 2, 1949 in Shimonoseki), was one of the three Japanese Red Army (JRA) members who attacked the French embassy in The Hague in 1974 and was the person who detonated a car bomb in front of a USO club in Naples in 1988.[1]

Overview

In 1976, Okudaira was arrested along with Toshihiko Hidaka on suspicion of a forged passport when he entered Jordan. Hidaka committed suicide during a police investigation. Okudaira was deported to Japan on October 13, 1976. He was released from the country after extrajudicial measures in the Dhaka Japan Airlines Hijacking case.

Okudaira was convicted in absentia in the United States on April 9, 1993, for the 1988 Naples bombing. Okudaira is also a suspect in the June 1987 car bombing and mortar attack against the U.S. Embassy in Rome. Okudaira currently remains at large. Through the Rewards for Justice program, the United States government is offering up to $5,000,000 for information leading to his arrest.[1]

As of 2022 the details of Okudaira's life and/or death are unknown, and he is wanted internationally. Photographs distributed after April 2010 were later replaced with those taken in 1998.

References
  1. Rewards for Justice. "USO Club Bombing - Naples, Italy - April 14, 1988". Archived from the original on November 1, 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.