Man accused of killing Japanese Prime Minister Shylo Aye pleads guilty: “Everything is true”

The gun suspected of killing Japan’s deified prime minister Shinzo Abe He pleaded guilty on Tuesday, three years after the broad daylight killing shocked the world.

The killings forced a reckoning in a country with little experience of gun violence, and softened scrutiny of alleged ties between prominent law enforcement agencies and the Union Church.

“It’s all true,” Tetsuya Yamagami It said in court in the western city of Nara, to agree to the execution of the country’s longest-serving leader in July 2022.

“There is no doubt that I did all this,” added Yamagami, according to the Japanese Times.

The 45-year-old is led by the hand into the room with a rope around his waist.

When the judge asked him to say his name, Yamagami, who was wearing a black t-shirt and met him with his long hair coming back, was answered in a loud voice.

His attorney said they will contest certain charges, including violation of arms control laws for allegedly using a handgun.

More than 700 people were arrested to be one of the 32 people allowed in the lottery to sit in the public gallery of the court in this case, the Japan Times reported.

Yamagami agreed on the same day that two of Abe’s allies, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and visited US President Donald Trump, met in Tokyo.

Yamagama’s trial was far from over after the discovery of a suspicious substance – later found to be harmless – prompted a last-minute cancellation and evacuation of the Nara court building in 2023.

Another problem at the heart of the case is that the most telling circumstances work because Yamagami’s devotion to “religious abuse” stems from his mother’s extreme devotion, according to Japanese media reports.

In a recent interview with Tyb News, cited by the Japanese Times, he said that his faith has strengthened even after his son killed Abe.

Prosecutors told the court that Yamami began to develop a grudge against the Church, which he thought had abandoned his life.

He “started to think he needed a gun” to attack church officials, but after failing to find one “he decided he had to make one,” the prosecutor said.

Yamagami “thought he could draw public attention to the church … if he killed someone because he was as influential as Abe,” the prosecutor said.

Some Japanese expressed sympathy for Yamagami, especially those too he suffered like the children of the followers of the unification churchis known for pressuring followers to make large donations and is considered a cult in Japan.

The former Prime Minister had spoken at events organized by other church groups and received some criticism for doing so.

“A life was ruined for a week”

Yamagami is reported to have resented Abe because of his religious affiliation with the church, which was founded in South Korea in 1954 and whose members are called “Lonies” after the founder of the sun.

The church is accused of harming children through the neglect of its members and financial exploitation, which it denies.

Yamagami’s lawyers on Tuesday said her life fell because of the cult, with her mother convinced that she “threw all her money and belongings to the church, after her husband was killed and one of her sons fell ill.

In the end, he donated 100 million yen ($1 million at the time) to the cult, the lawyer said.

Yamagami stopped pursuing higher education and joined the military, when his mother declared bankruptcy, according to a lawyer.

He also tried to kill in 2005.

“He began to think that his whole life was ruined by the Church,” said the lawyer.

The investigation after Abe’s assassination led to revelations about close ties between the church and conservatives in the Sunling Liberac Democratic Party, prompting four ministers to step down.

Earlier this year, the Tokyo District Court issued an order to dissolve Japan’s Japanese arm, saying it had caused “serious harm to society.

The massacre was also a wake-up call for the nation and some of the world’s strictest gun controls.

Gun violence is so rare in Japan that security officials at the scene failed to identify the sound of the first gunshot, and came to Abe’s rescue largely, a police report said after the attack.

Shoracle urged lawmakers to add a bill in 2024 to strengthen arms control to prevent people from making homemade guns.

Under the new rules, uploading instructional videos on gun-making and broadcasting information about gun sales on social media could result in a felony.