this suspected assassin of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe announced resentment he felt towards the president in a letter He said he had sent someone like himself who was extremely critical of the Unification Church.
Police believe the murder suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, harbors a grudge against this religious organization, which he blames for the bankruptcy of his mother and the breakup of his family. mistakenly believed that Abe had ties to faith.
Before attacking Abe, Yamagami, a 41-year-old former military officer, sent a letter to a person critical of the Unification Church and posted his criticism of the organization on a blog. In the letter written by Yamagami “offended” with AbeHe describes himself as “one of the most influential supporters of the Unification Church in the real world”, despite claiming to be the former prime minister. was not “his real enemy”.
The suspected killer told the police: his mother’s donations to the church destroyed his family, and his uncle guaranteed that the sum of these donations was about 100 million yen (about 715,000 euros). Yamagami marked abe as target After seeing a video recorded by the former president for an event of an organization affiliated with the Unification Church in September 2021, and given the difficulties of accessing any member of the leadership of the organization he had previously planned to attack.
Abe died on July 8 while giving a campaign speech in the city of Nara (west). arm and heartbeat Made by Yamagami, which uses a homemade weapon similar to a shotgun.