A man arrested for attacking the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Government party

MADRID 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

A man has been arrested for throwing flammable liquid last night at the Tokyo headquarters of the ruling party of Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and for throwing his van against the wire fence that protects the attached office of the country’s prime minister. Shigeru Ishiba.

The individual has been identified as Atsunobu Usuda, 43 years old and a native of the nearby Saitama prefecture, as reported by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police in a statement collected by the official Japanese news agency, Kyodo.

The attack with flammable liquid caused damage to a Police vehicle but has left no victims to mourn.

The detainee has remained silent before the authorities and has not given any explanation for this attack that takes place less than ten days before the general elections, where Prime Minister Ishiba faces the difficult task of regaining the trust of the population after the scandal. of financing that has affected his party and overcome the traditional distrust of the electorate towards its leaders.

The polls, however, give the PDL as the favorite, largely due to the high rate of abstention that is expected and the prevailing fragmentation in an opposition whose main exponent, the Constitutional Democratic Party, is 14 points away from the PLD. according to a recent Kyodo survey.

“Although we still do not know the motive of the perpetrator, we are deeply outraged by this act,” denounced the general secretary of the LDP, Hiroshi Moriyama, in a statement published on the party’s website.