Sagittarius Tetsuya Yamagami, formerly of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, admitted , that he planned the assassination in advance, because he was dissatisfied with the former head of government.
All the details of the resonant murder of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are published by the Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
On July 8, Shinzo Abe was wounded after an assassination attempt during an election campaign in the city of Nara. The journalists assumed that the politician was shot with a shotgun, and upon the arrival of the doctors, he showed no signs of life.
“He was making a speech, and a man came up behind. The first shot was fired as if in jest. He did not fall, only there was a loud sound. During the second shot, a flash and smoke were visible,” the source of the Japanese television company NHK was quoted by France Press.