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YAMAGAMI FOUND COMPETENT, FACES TRIAL FOR ABE’S MURDER

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

January 13, 2023 at 15:30 JST

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Tetsuya Yamagami, the susupect in the slaying of former Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe last July, is taken to the Nara-Nishi Police Station in Nara on Jan. 10
following a psychiatric evaluation. (Nobuhiro Shirai)

NARA--Prosecutors on Jan. 13 indicted Tetsuya Yamagami for the murder last July
of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, concluding after a lengthy psychiatric
evaluation he was of sound mind at the time and is competent to bear criminal
liability.

Yamagami, 42, was also indicted for violating the Firearm and Sword Possession
Control Law because he was caught red-handed with a homemade gun, according to
sources close to the Nara District Public Prosecutors Office. 

He will likely be tried by lay judges. 

Yamagami underwent psychiatric evaluations that lasted around five and a half
months following his arrest, moments after Abe was shot from behind around 11:30
a.m. last July 8 while delivering an election campaign speech near Kintetsu
Railway’s Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara city.

Yamagami, according to investigators, told police after his arrest he bore a
grudge against the Unification Church, now formally called the Family Federation
for World Peace and Unification, because of his mother’s sizable donations to
the group when he was growing up, which left the family in dire poverty.

He said he had initially planned to target the current head of the church, but
she had been unable to visit Japan due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, so he
shot Abe because he suspected the veteran politician had deep ties to the
church.

Additional indictments are pending.

Nara prefectural police intend to send additional documents to prosecutors over
suspected breaches of the Firearm and Sword Possession Control Law, the Weapons
Manufacturing Law and the Gunpowder Control Law, sources said.

These matters relate to handmade guns and gunpowder that police found during a
search of Yamagami’s home in Nara.

The prefectural police will also send documents to prosecutors over a gunshot
presumed to have been fired by Yamagami at a building in Nara that houses an
affiliated organization of the Unification Church on the eve of the murder.

Revelations about ties between politicians and the Unification Church, along
with massive donations that church members make to the body and the plight of
“second-generation” followers, whose parents are devout church members, emerged
like a tidal wave after Abe’s death.

That led to the enactment of a law for victims’ relief that bans inappropriate
donation solicitations by religious and other groups.

The legislation passed the extraordinary Diet session at the end of last year
and took effect Jan. 5.




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