Posted by A man accused of setting a fire at a video parlor that killed 16 people pleaded innocent Monday, saying prosecutors falsely painted him as a suicidal failure with an intent to kill.
“I did not set fire to the establishment,” Kazuhiro Ogawa, 47, said during his first hearing at the Osaka District Court.
He said the fire on Oct. 1, 2008, did not start at the booth where he was staying, and that he was sleeping when the blaze broke out.
