Shinzo Abe Shooter's Original Intent Was To Attack A Religious Leader: Police

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• Jul 9, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

Digital Desk: According to reports in the Japanese media on
Saturday, which were based on police sources, the man who fatally shot former
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe admitted to authorities that his first goal
was to attack a religious leader.

According to international News platform which cited the police, Tetsuya
Yamagami, 41, claimed he had a vendetta against a "particular
organisation" that he thought was associated with Abe. This organisation
may have been a religious organisation. The story did not name the religious
figurehead.

In the western prefecture of Nara, Abe, 67, passed away on
Friday morning after being shot in the back during an election campaign speech
near a train station.

Yamagami was in possession of a handmade gun when he was
apprehended. According to the authorities, he has denied committing the act
because he disagrees with Abe's political views.

He also had no idea what he wanted to do with his life after
high school and had left a job two months prior because he was
"weary," according to The Japan Times newspaper.

Police raids at his Nara apartment on Friday resulted in the
discovery of explosives and handmade weapons, according to the article. In his
graduation yearbook, Yamagami, a graduate of a public high school in Nara
Prefecture, stated that he "didn't have a clue" about his career
goals.

He was a Maritime Self-Defence officer at the Kure base in
Hiroshima Prefecture in 2005, according to government officials.

He worked in a Kansai-area manufacturing company in 2020,
but he informed the employer that he wanted to leave because he was
"weary" in April of this year, and he left the position the following
month, it continued.