According to police sources cited by the Japanese media, the suspect served in the Japanese navy until 2005 and would have made his firearm himself.
Le Monde via AP, AFP and Reuters
The former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 67, was delivering a speech in support of Kei Sato, a local candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party on a crossroads near a station in Nara when he been targeted by a man who pulled twice. The former leader died in the hospital, where he had been transported at midday (Tokyo time).
According to police sources cited by the Japanese media, the suspect arrested is a 41 -year -old Japanese, unemployed, named Tetsuya Yamagami. This Nara resident served for three years in the maritime force of Japanese self-defense, the Japanese navy, until 2005, still according to local media, which cite the Ministry of Defense.
He would have made his firearm himself, which measures around forty centimeters, while the restrictions against these weapons in Japan are extremely strong and that it is very difficult to obtain a armed. “The suspect affirms this, and we have clearly established it: [the firearm used] is apparently crafts; but our analysis is still underway,” a police officer from the Nara region told journalists .
intention to kill Shinzo Abe
According to the NHK, Tetsuya Yamagami has entrusted the investigators after his arrest that he was “frustrated” vis-à-vis Mr. Abe and that he shot him with the intention of killing him. He “said he kept a grudge against a certain organization and confessed to having committed the crime because he believed that former Prime Minister Abe was linked to him,” said a police official in the Nara region during ‘A press conference.
The police searched Tetsuya Yamagami’s home on Friday, where potentially explosive products have been found, according to the public television.