Who shot Shinzo Abe in Japan and why: Yamagami Tetsuya identikit

Two gunshots fired from close range and from behind. Bullets fired precisely and to kill those that hit former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the longest serving prime minister in Japanese history (as well as the youngest to have held this role) in Nara, central western Japan, during a rally. Abe struggles between life and death, the Japanese authorities say “conditions are critical”. And the Japanese police immediately arrested the alleged bomber. This is Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, now in handcuffs on charges of attempted murder for having fired two shots against the former prime minister.
The man, who lives right in Nara, had managed to evade security and get close to Abe, who was engaged in the electoral speech. The man who ended up in handcuffs until 2005 was a “maritime self-defense member” of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, the Jietai. The real reason that prompted the former soldier to pull the trigger is still unknown and Japanese investigators are on the trail of alleged collaborators and accomplices of Yamagami. The attacker, however, has already spoken to the police – the Japanese authorities report to local TV and agencies – stating “that he did not shoot the former prime minister for political reasons”. Yamagami told police in Nara Prefecture, near Osaka, immediately after his arrest. “It is not a grudge against the political beliefs of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,” said the man, quoted by the Kyodo news agency. Other sources still cite excerpts from the bomber’s interrogation: “Not out of political belief”, but because “dissatisfied” with the policies of Shizo Abe: these are the reasons that Tetsuya Yamagami, the bomber of the former prime minister, struggling between life and death, he allegedly confessed to police after his arrest, according to public NHK TV reports. Yagamay’s aim was “to kill” Abe because “I felt resentment and dissatisfaction with him.”