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<p> Three hours after the incident, police officers were still coming and going, and the area around the scene was filled with a tense atmosphere.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> It seems that someone was stabbed. I didn&#8217;t know there was such a violent incident in the middle of Tokyo. &#8230;&#8230;</span></p>
<p> A woman in her 40s who was standing nearby said in a frightened tone, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to do. On the evening of September 12, the reporter visited a downtown area with many restaurants in Akasaka (Minato-ku), Tokyo. It was around 5:30 in the evening when a man in his 30s was stabbed with a knife inside a building in the same area.</p>
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<p> The suspect, Gebremariam Mesfin Mularet, 61, an Ethiopian national, was caught red-handed on suspicion of attempted murder in the building where the incident took place. Gebremariam allegedly stabbed Mr. A, a male executive in his 30s at an apparel-related company whose office is on the third floor of the building, in the stomach with a kitchen knife with a blade of approximately 25 cm in length.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> When police officers arrived at the scene after receiving a 110 call that an employee had been stabbed, they found a kitchen knife near the Gebremariam suspect with blood all over it. Mr. A, who was stabbed, was immediately rushed to the hospital, but he was in a critical condition, unconscious (he later regained consciousness). Another male employee, who tried to take the knife from Gebremariam, suffered a minor cut on his finger.</span></p>
<h2> Feeling betrayed</h2>
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<p> Gebremariam was a former bartender at a bar owned by the company for which Mr. A works, and was fired about a year ago when the company pulled out of the business. When questioned by the police, Gebremariam gave the following statement regarding his motive for committing the crime: &#8220;I felt betrayed after being fired.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I felt betrayed when I was fired. (Mr. A) said, &#8216;I will take care of your next job,&#8217; but he didn&#8217;t introduce me (to a job). I consulted with him several times, but the situation did not change, so I ran out of patience. （I was going to threaten him if anything happened (with the knife he was carrying). I was so excited that I don&#8217;t remember what happened at the time of the incident.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> Former Kanagawa Prefectural Police detective and crime journalist Taihei Ogawa explains.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> From Mr. A&#8217;s point of view, his statement, &#8216;I will take care of you at work,&#8217; was probably a vague social order out of kindness, just like a Japanese person would say. He may have meant something as simple as, &#8220;If I find a good job, I will introduce it to you,&#8221; and may not have had a concrete plan.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> On the other hand, from the foreign suspect&#8217;s point of view, if his former boss said, &#8216;I will take care of you,&#8217; he may have felt that he was &#8216;guaranteed a future. He was told that he would be offered a specific job. The suspect could not understand Mr. A&#8217;s kindness, and he probably committed the crime out of resentment that his situation had not changed at all.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> At the September 14 transfer, Gebremariam got into the convoy with his face down and without looking at the press.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_438911" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-438911" style="width: 1280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="a2d4b495"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/09/fc87cd27d825764de8185185200facbe.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-438911" class="wp-caption-text">Stated that he was &#8220;betrayed.&#8221;</figcaption></figure>
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 Shinji Hasuo

 A stabbing incident occurred in downtown Akasaka, Tokyo. An Ethiopian national was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. He stabbed his former boss in the stomach with a kitchen knife. The suspect was fired from the man's company about a year ago. What was the "limit of endurance" that he stated?

&#8216;I told him, &#8220;I&#8217;ll take care of you&#8221;&#8216;&#8230; Fired Ethiopian national &#8216;knifed his former boss&#8217; and stated, &#8220;I&#8217;m running out of patience.&#8221;

‘I told him, “I’ll take care of you”‘… Fired Ethiopian national ‘knifed his former boss’ and stated, “I’m running out of patience.”

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