A man shot him as he delivered a speech to Nara, in western Japan. Mr. Abe directed the country twice, leaving a strong imprint. He had left his post in 2020 after almost ten years in power.
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Shinzo Abe hospitalized in serious condition. The former Japanese Prime Minister was the target of gunshots around 11:30 a.m. on Friday July 8. Mr. Abe made a public speech at a crossroads near the Yamato-Saidiji station in Nara, in the western Japan. He intervened as part of the campaign for the senatorial elections of July 10.
Rescue reports cardiorepiratory arrest but his death was not confirmed in the early afternoon. “His state remains unknown,” reacted the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) in power. Also participating in the senatorial campaign, the current Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, was to intervene in the department of Yamagata (North). “We bring together information before considering what to do,” he said before returning to Tokyo, where the government has set up an emergency cell.
“A man arrived in behind; the first shot was just a very strong noise and no one fell, but at the time of the second shot, Mr. Abe collapsed. Many people gathered around him and made him cardiac massages, “a woman present at the fact of the facts. Injured in the neck and unconscious, Shinzo Abe was transported to the city hospital before being transferred by helicopter to the university hospital of Kashihara, neighbor of Nara.
The author of the shots, a man in his forties called Tetsuya Yamagami, was arrested. He would have used a hunting rifle. “He did not fled and he was placed on the ground by the security agents,” added the woman cited by the NHK.
“ABENOMICS”
Aged 67, Abe began his political career alongside his father, Shintaro Abe, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, who died in 1991 at the age of 67. The young Shinzo is then forced to succeed him.
From the start of his parliamentary career, Shinzo Abe joins the right -wing fringe of the PLD. Appointed secretary of this party in 2003, he won alongside Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2001-2006), by attacking files such as the Japanese affair kidnapped by North Korean agents in the 1970s -1980. Its firmness serves its popularity in part of the opinion. Successor of Mr. Koizumi in 2006, Mr. Abe gained power with a politically conservative and economically neoliberal program.
A scandal affecting the pension system, however, drops its popularity. Nine months after coming to power, he lost the senatorial elections. Conjugated to a serious crisis of hemorrhagic rectocolitis – an incurable disease from which he has suffered since the age of 17 and for which he will be hospitalized in 2007 -, these problems force him to resign.
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