The prosecutor’s office Japan formally accused Tetsuya Yamagami, the main suspect for the assassination of former Japanese president Shinzo Abe, on July 8 of last year, where he allegedly shot and killed the politician while he was giving a campaign speech. This crime shook the international community for an attack that highlighted the connections between religion and politics in the Asian nation.
Yamagami had admitted to being guilty of this crime due to the closeness that the politician from the “land of the rising sun” had with the “Unification Church” or “Moon Sect”., a religious community known for its mass weddings and aggressive solicitation of donations. The murderer of the former Prime Minister of Japan He stated that he had a very bad relationship with this group because the immense amount of money that his mother gave them led his family to ruin.
At first it was believed that the individual had some kind of psychiatric problem, although the court specialists carried out several studies and medical examinations that confirmed that he is fit to be tried in the traditional way. The assassination, however, is not the only charge that the man faces, since the police of Japan will also try to charge you with breaking the gun manufacturing law, which is very strict on the japanese nation.
previous attempts
This is not the first time where Yamagami tried to carry out a terrorist attack against members of this religious sect, because in 2019 he tried to assassinate high-ranking members of the church, but failed, so he turned his efforts to Abe.
According to one uncle, the death of his father was the reason why the assassin’s mother joined this group, which made him donate more than 100 million yen to the church, which included her husband’s life insurance payments. This situation caused one of Yamagami’s brothers to take his own life.
