According to judicial sources of various Japanese media, the prosecutors of the city of Nara have decided to indict Tetsuya Yamagami, the man accused of having killed the former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe in an attack. After psychiatric evaluations, Yamagami was deemed fit to stand trial against him. Yamagami is 42 years old, unemployed and had shot Abe last July 8, while the former prime minister was giving a public speech in Nara, near Kyoto, with a weapon that he had built himself. His detention will end on January 10, after the last psychiatric checks, and the man should then be indicted on the 13th.
The reasons for the attack have not yet been fully clarified, but it seems that they were linked to Abe’s relations with the Unification Church, a religious group widespread mainly in the United States and East Asia which has millions of members and which for many it is considered rather cult-like. Yamagami held the Church and its political supporters responsible for impoverishing his family.
