Former Aum Shinrikyo fugitive Naoko Kikuchi said Friday she had no idea that cult superiors had roped her into a plot to build and send a parcel bomb to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government headquarters in 1995.
Kikuchi, 42, is pleading not guilty to charges of attempted murder. She is accused of willful complicity in the bombing, which severely injured a secretary of then Tokyo Gov. Yukio Aoshima, which took off all the fingers on his left hand.
Kikuchi admitted delivering chemicals to her Aum superiors on at least three occasions, but denied knowing they would be used to make explosives.
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