Japan, life sentence for the murderer of former prime minister Shinzo Abe | EUROtoday

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The man accused of killing Japan’s former prime minister has been sentenced to life in jail Shinzo Abe. Prosecutors had requested for all times in jail for Tetsuya Yamagami45, who admitted killing Abe with a selfmade firearm throughout an election rally within the metropolis of Nara, western Japan. The homicide occurred in 2022.

The assassination, an unprecedented occasion in Japan’s post-war historical past, triggered a institutional disaster and social, bringing to gentle the deep ties between the conservative political class and the Unification Churchoften known as «Moon Church», based by Sun Myung Moona South Korean preacher and non secular chief who performed an oblique political function in Korea and the United States. Yamagami had admitted from the start of the trial that he had shot Abe, however disputed some expenses. The prosecutor’s workplace had requested a life sentence, defining the crime as “a crime without equal” when it comes to gravity and impression on the democratic cloth of the nation.

The motive for the assault lay in private grudge di Yamagami in direction of the Unification Churchto which his mom would have donated round 100 million yen, simply over 600 thousand euros, bringing the household broke. After his father’s suicide and his brother’s demise, Yamagami determined to desert his research, residing in growing isolation. According to the protection, he was the sufferer of “religious abuse” and acted satisfied that eliminating a outstanding determine like Abe – who had participated in occasions linked to the sect – would “expose his predatory practices”.

The prosecutor’s workplace, whereas recognizing the dramatic context, reiterated that Yamagami was a aware grownup and that his motion can’t be justified by private struggling. Furthermore, the handcrafted weapon demonstrated apremeditated motion. At the positioning of the assault, safety didn’t instantly acknowledge the shot – a mirrored image of a rustic the place armed violence is sort of unknown – and intervened too late to save lots of the lifetime of the 67-year-old former politician, till then the prime minister with the longest general tenure in Japan’s constitutional historical past.