Shinzo Abe, former Japanese Prime Minister, visited his public speeches shortly before the attempt.
According to NHK, 41-year-old Tatsuya Yamagami reported during the interrogation that he had attended several events of ABE, but calculated the situation inappropriate for the murder.
It also became known that the ex-military shot in Abe from a homemade firearm, which worked on the principle of manual cut and shot with a shrapnel. When he admitted that he first wanted to make a bomb.
It was previously reported that the Yamagi planned to attack the leader of the “religious group”. He himself later stated that he was dissatisfied with Abe’s policy and shot him intentionally “because of involvement in a certain organization.”
Asseling on Abe occurred on July 8. The former sailor of the Japanese self -defense forces approached Abe from the back and opened fire from a shotgun.