“Tetsuya Yamagami, who killed former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, confessed to attempting to manufacture a grenade,” the Kyodo news agency reported, citing sources, adding that Yamagami’s killer, 41, had been brought before prosecutors.

Yamagami indicated during interrogation that he was “not satisfied with Abe”, but then stated that his target was originally another politician and was later chosen by Abe, with allegations that Abe was connected to the “group”.

Yamagami had previously told police that “by targeting Abe, he wanted to oppose and send a message to a specific group that Abe supposedly belonged to, and he originally planned to attack the leader of a religious group.”

On Friday morning in the Japanese city of Nara, Shinzo Abe was shot from behind during a speech, as a result of which he was injured and died. Assailant Yamagami fired two shots from behind the Japanese politician from a distance of about 10 meters, and after the second shot, Abe fell.

Sources said: “During the attack, Abi was wounded in the right side of the neck and there was bleeding afterwards. In addition, bleeding was recorded in the chest area on the left, noting that he was conscious when he was injured. , but in the process of transportation, his condition became critical, with cardiac and pulmonary arrest.