Prosecutors plan to indict Tetsuya Yamagami for murder and violating the firearms and swords law on the 13th in the case where former Prime Minister Abe was shot and died in Nara.
Tetsuya Yamagami (42), an unemployed man in Nara, was arrested on the spot by the police on July 8 last year for shooting former Prime Minister Abe during a speech in Nara.
In response to the investigation so far, Yamagami stated that he caused the incident after growing a grudge against the "Family Federation for World Peace and Unification", to which his mother had made a large donation, and the former Unification Church. As for the reason why he targeted the former prime minister, he explained, "I thought he had a close relationship with the former Unification Church."
Since last July, the Nara District Public Prosecutor's Office has been detaining Yamagami for nearly half a year and conducting a psychiatric evaluation. It is a policy to prosecute for violating the Firearms and Swords Act, such as firing a gun.
According to investigative sources, during the psychiatric evaluation, Yamagami made a statement to the effect that he wanted to hear more about the former Unification Church and other matters, and he did not talk enough about his relationship with the former Unification Church and his family in the evaluation. It means that it was a state.
Yamagami is expected to be tried in a lay judge trial, and the focus will be on how much the details and motives of the incident that shocked society will be revealed in the trial.
Yamagami: "I want to go to university"
According to Yamagami's uncle, the suspect told his sister, whom he met while he was detained at the Osaka Detention Center until the 10th of this month, that he wanted to go to university when he was able to return to society in the future. about it.
Yamagami said that his mother joined the old Unification Church, the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, and donated a large amount of money, and his family was in poverty and he was unable to go to university.
At the Osaka detention center, he spent his time studying so that he could enter university one day, and his relatives provided him with English-language qualification materials and an English-Japanese dictionary.
A large amount of clothes and sweets were sent to the detention center from all over the country.
Among them, cash registered mail saying "Please use it for expenses after serving time" was also delivered, and the amount exceeded 1 million yen around October last year.
On the other hand, Yamagami's uncle has been exchanging documents with the church's lawyer to request a refund from the former Unification Church after the mother's donation amount was revealed in this case. , The mother said, "I'm sorry to the former Unification Church. I don't want you to return the money."