Abe’s killer attacked the former prime minister for his alleged links to an unidentified group

July 8. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The murderer of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has confessed that he attacked the former president by understanding that he had links with an organization that the aggressor repudiated, as the Japanese Police made known this Friday at their first press conference after Abe’s death. , and in which it has not provided details about the group in question.

The Nara Police have confirmed the name and age of the shooter, definitively identified as Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, from the town of Nara. Yamagami has confessed his responsibility for the crime.

“Yamagami hated a certain group and assumed that Abe had a connection with this group,” according to a police spokesman, without elaborating on this matter.

Police have confirmed that Yamagami himself made the weapon that killed Abe, a double-barreled shotgun, and that security forces have found several homemade weapons similar to the one used in the attack at his home.

Finally, the investigation into the shooting reveals that the first of the two shotgun shells did not hit Abe, who turned around to identify the source of the detonation, only to end up receiving the second shot in the face. chest and neck, according to the press conference collected by the correspondent of the ‘Washington Post’.