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A bullet hole was found in a wall about 90 meters away from Abe’s attack site.

Killer: “When the head of a religious group came to Korea, he took a Molotov cocktail”

Abe murderer sent to prosecution

(Nara Kyodo/AP=Yonhap News) Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, who shot and killed former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during an election campaign is being sent to the prosecution from the Western Nara Police Station in Japan on the 10th.

(Tokyo = Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Se-won = It was revealed on the 13th that a bullet, believed to have been shot by former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s killer, flew 90 meters away and damaged the wall.

Japan’s Nara Prefectural Police Headquarters, which is investigating the murder of former Prime Minister Abe, has searched the Yamatosaidai area in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, where Abe was shot, and found three holes that looked like bullets in the wall of a parking lot about 90 meters north of the scene. Kyodo News reported.

The holes were found at about 4 m, 5 m, and 8 m above the ground, respectively.

From the early morning of the 13th, the police conducted on-site inspections in the area with a group of about 50 people, and found a hole presumed to be bullet marks.

Ex-Prime Minister Abe's killer being suppressed
Ex-Prime Minister Abe’s killer being suppressed

(Nara Reuters = Yonhap News) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (67), who was shot in front of the Yamatosaidai district in Nara City, Japan on the 8th, during a campaign for the House of Representatives election, Tetsuya Yamagami (below, 41) is suppressed immediately after the crime. [요미우리신문 촬영/교도 제공]

The gun used in the crime had a similar structure to a shotgun, and was fired once each at a distance of about 7 meters and 5 meters from Abe.

Tetsuya Yamagami, who killed former Prime Minister Abe by making a gun, described it as “a structure that can fire six bullets at once.”

A hole 90m away from Abe's attack site
A hole 90m away from Abe’s attack site

(Nara Kyodo = Yonhap News) A police officer investigates a hole in the parking lot wall (black circle on the right) in relation to the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan on the morning of the 13th. The hole was found about 90 meters away from the scene of the incident.

The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that he told the investigative agency, “When the top (chief) came to Japan from Korea, he took a Molotov cocktail.

Yomiuri added that Hak Ja Han, president of the Families Association for World Peace and Unification, had come to Japan for a rally held in Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 2019.

Bullet holes found in parking lot wall
Bullet holes found in parking lot wall

(Nara Kyodo = Yonhap News)

Kyodo News reported that Yamagami also said that he had changed his target to former Prime Minister Abe because the governor Han did not come to Japan due to the spread of Corona 19.

Yomiuri also said that Yamagami’s mother’s donation to this religious group was found to be 100 million yen (about 950 million won) through the story of the person concerned.

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