Tetsuya Yamagami, author of the attack on the former Japanese prime minister, belonged to the Maritime Self-Defense Forces for three years and shot him with a weapon made of two cylinders connected with adhesive tape like sawn-off barrels.
In Japan, a country notable for its security and absence of political radicalism, the attack that killed former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has caused a stir. While all questions are yet to be answered, even asked, there are already some details known that shed a little light on this murder.
According to the Kyodo news agency, the alleged killer is named Tetsuya Yamagami and is a 41-year-old ex-soldier who was arrested after shooting Abe outside a train station in Nara, southwest of the country and near Kyoto. According to Fuji television, he was part of the Maritime Self-Defense Forces for three years, until 2005, but his motives for attacking Abe are still unknown. After his arrest, which he did not resist, the police searched his house, where he found some objects “similar to explosives”.
As can be seen in the footage of the attack, he used a homemade weapon, a sort of sawed-off shotgun with two cylinders taped as cannons. As Abe gave a speech in support of his party’s local candidate for Sunday’s elections to the upper house of the Japanese parliament, Yamagami approached the podium and opened fire as the clock read 11:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m.). morning, Spanish peninsula time). His shots sounded like an explosion and immediately bodyguards jumped on the attacker, who left his weapon on the ground, releasing thick white smoke and a strong smell of gunpowder, according to eyewitnesses reported to Japanese media.
His shirt soaked with the blood from the bullets to his chest and neck, Abe lay on the floor with his eyes closed as members of his team tried to stop the bleeding with their hands. Although he was rushed to Nara University Hospital, he had lost a lot of blood from the two wounds to his neck and one of the bullets had hit his heart. With no vital signs, the doctors tried to give him two transfusions to resuscitate him, but were unable to confirm his death until 5:03 PM (10:03 AM in Spain).
After returning to Tokyo from Yamagata prefecture, where he also campaigned, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has condemned this “barbaric act, which should never be tolerated” “in the strongest possible terms”. Showing that the attack on 67-year-old Abe will not disrupt Japanese democracy, Kishida has announced Sunday’s elections will take place as scheduled. But yes, under the shock that has shaken Japan, where there is strict gun control and the death penalty for murder is by hanging.
Source: La Verdad
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