On Friday, Japanese prosecutors charged a man arrested in the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder and violating gun control laws, local media reported. Tetsuya Yamagami, 42, was arrested immediately after the former Japanese Prime Minister was shot dead. last. July, when he gave a campaign speech in the western city of Nara.
Yamagami underwent a psychological evaluation that lasted several months and ended this week. He was transferred back to the police station in Nara.
Media outlets including the Yomiuri and Kyodo News newspapers have reported that Yamagami is charged with murder and violating gun control laws and could be sentenced to death if found guilty.
The Narinsky district prosecutor’s office, contacted by AFP, declined to comment on the case.
According to local media reports, Yamagami confessed to killing Abe, and photographs taken from the scene show him firing an improvised weapon. He said he targeted Abe because of links between the former prime minister and the Unification Church.
It is believed that Yamagami resented the church for his mother’s large donations to the sect and bankrupted his family.
