常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

demand

豊川の籠城事件、犯人確保で、人質もほぼ無傷で解決して愛知県警も胸をなでおろしていることでしょう。
さてここのdemanding以下の用法が気になります。EnDoughくん、解説をしてください。(Minnesotta)

Police arrest bank hostage-taker who demanded Noda resign
CRIME NOV. 23, 2012 - 06:35AM JST ( 1 )

Police on Friday stormed a bank and arrested a man who took five people hostage. The man had been demanding that Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s cabinet resign.

In a televised news conference, a police spokesman said the hostage-taker, identified as Koji Nagakubo, was arrested on suspicion of taking the five captive. Police enterered the building from the second floor at about 2:40 a.m., the spokesman said.

The hostages, including one released earlier, were all in protective custody safely, the spokesman said, while local media said one of them was slightly injured.

The 32-year-old man began the siege just after 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon at the Zoshi branch of the Toyokawa Shinkin Bank in central Aichi Prefecture.

Wielding a survival knife, he took four employees and a female customer captive and was demanding the Noda cabinet step down, as well as asking to speak to journalists, local media said.

About seven hours after the drama began, the man released one hostage. Television footage showed a woman walking away from the bank as night fell, escorted by a police officer and apparently handcuffed.

The hostage-taker had also asked for 10 days’ worth of food and water, cigarettes and a lighter, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said. 

Television footage showed a man who appeared to be a police officer carrying a megaphone and a plastic bag to a side door of the building. Shutters were down all over it but lights could be seen inside.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/police-arrest-bank-hostage-taker-who-demanded-noda-resign