A Japanese police investigation has revealed new details about the weapon used in the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Police confiscated homemade weapons and tools used to make weapons at the home of Tetsuya Yamagami, who is accused of murdering Abe.
According to the English newspaper “Daily Mail”, the Japanese police seized a 9-barreled gun that can be remotely controlled using a mobile phone from Yamagami’s house.
Police said Abe was killed with a homemade weapon made from parts Yamagami bought online.
Investigation revealed that Yamagami was considering assassinating Abe with a bomb before changing his mind and resorting to a weapon of his own making.
Yamagami told the investigation that he made weapons with steel tubes that he attached to multi-barrel rifles.
A senior Japanese police official on Saturday confirmed a possible security lapse that allowed Yamagami to fire his pistol at Abe while he was speaking at a campaign rally.
Abe was shot in the western city of Nara on Friday and airlifted to hospital, but bled to death.
Police arrested Yamagami, a former member of the Japanese Navy, at the scene.
Police said Yamagami told investigators he committed the crime because he believed rumors about Abe’s association with an organization he hated were true.
Japanese media reported that the man had a strong hatred for a religious organization, while his mother was obsessed with it, causing family problems.
Nara Police Chief Tomoaki Onizuka called Abe’s assassination “the most unfortunate event of his 27-year career.”
He added: I can’t deny that there were insurance issues, whether it was preparation, emergency response, or people’s capacity, we still have to find out, in general, there was a problem and we are investigating from every angle.
According to Fumikazu Higuchi, a former Kyoto prefectural police investigator, the footage shows that a small number of security personnel were present at the event, which was not enough to secure the former prime minister.
“There needs to be an investigation into why security allowed Yamagami to move freely and follow Abe,” Higuchi said on a Nippon television program, according to the Associated Press.
Mitsuru Fukuda, a professor of crisis management at Nihon University, said: “It seems that the police were mainly focused on what was happening in front and paid little attention to what was happening behind Mr. Abe, and no one stopped the suspect from approaching He didn’t. “
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