Japanese police revealed Monday that the suspect in the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fired shots the day before the attack at a Unification Church headquarters, a sect he blamed for money donations his mother had made.
The indictment filed Monday by the Nara Prefectural Police after closing the investigation states that the suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, 42, has confirmed his animosity against the religious sect, reports Japanese public television NHK.
Abe was shot dead in Nara in July 2022 during a campaign rally for the Japanese Senate elections. The suspect was charged in January with murder and failure to comply with the law on gun control.
Now the investigation has revealed that he had made up to six homemade guns that he kept at his home. He also allegedly violated the Public Charges Act with his attack. The indictment has already been forwarded to the prosecutor’s office.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
