Sources familiar with the ongoing investigation of the suspect in the murder of Shinzo Abe revealed the reasons that led him to assassinate the former Japanese prime minister.
“Tetsuya Yamagami told police he planned to attack the leader of a religious group believed to have bankrupted his mother through donations,” Kyodo news agency said, citing sources familiar with the investigation.
Yamagami, 41, indicated no grudge against Abe, the sources said, but emphasized Abe’s support and promotion of the religious group.
According to the sources, “Yamagami denied that Abe’s killing was motivated by his opposition to his political views.”
Yamagami, who is now unemployed, had been working at a factory in the Kansai region since fall 2020, but quit in May this year, according to a staffing agency employee.
The accused worked in the Navy Self Defense Force for about three years until August 2014.
Abe’s body arrived in Tokyo on Saturday from Nara, the western Japanese city where the former prime minister was killed during an election rally on Friday.
A car arrived at Abe’s residence in Tokyo, a car carrying the dead, and television images showed leaders of the former prime minister’s Liberal Democratic Party dressed in black and standing in a line of respect, AFP reported. “.
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