Tsuya Yamagami, who shot the former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, initially wanted to attack another person, Kyodo reports with reference to sources in the investigative bodies.
As the detainee said during interrogation, he initially planned to kill the leader of a certain religious group. However, then he changed his mind and decided to commit a crime against the politician, as he considered him involved in the organization. What kind of religious group we are not specified.
The agency also notes that the police searched the house with a pit and found items similar to an explosive device and home -made weapons.
about the attack on Abe became known on the morning of July 8. The incident occurred during the election event in the Japanese city of Nara. The former sailor of Japan’s self-defense forces 41-year-old Tatsuya Yamagi approached politics from the back and shot him from a shotgun. He later explained that Abe is allegedly connected with a certain “group of persons”, because of which his family had serious financial problems.