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From Kennedy to Abe, the attacks on politicians
Before Abe's assassination a long trail of blood
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy aboard the presidential limo in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, just before he was killed. © ANSA
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The still image, taken from Tg1, shows a moment of the film where President John Kennedy is seen greeting the crowd in Dallas in November 1963 just minutes before the fatal assassination. © ANSA
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Archive photo of the 1981 attack on Anwar al-Sadat, former President of Egypt. © ANSA
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Archive photo of the 1981 attack on Anwar al-Sadat, former President of Egypt. © ANSA
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Archive photo of Anwar El Sadat, president of Egypt, Nobel Peace Prize winner for having signed, first among the Arab countries, a peace agreement with Israel. © ANSA
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A pool of blood at the site of the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, in Sveavagen, Stockholm, on 1 March 1986. © ANSA / EPA
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A 1984 photo of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, assassinated in 1986. © ANSA / EPA
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1995 attack on Yitzhak Rabin, former Prime Minister of Israel, captured on TV. © ANSA
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A still from the attack on Israeli Prime Minister Yitzahk Rabin, escorted by bodyguards, by Yizal Amir (circled in red). © ANSA
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An archive photo dated February 1994 of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. © ANSA / EPA
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Supporters of Benazir Bhutto carry his coffin. Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto died in 2007 after a suicide bomber targeted her vehicle during an election rally. © ANSA / EPA
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Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in an archive photo from 1996. Bhutto died from injuries sustained in an attack during a rally in Rawalpindi. © ANSA
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Police officers at the place where British MP Jo Cox was killed in Birstall, Great Britain, in 2016. © ANSA / EPA
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A photo dated 12 May 2016 of British Labor MP Jo Cox, who died in an attack in Bristall on 16 June 2016. © ANSA / EPA
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A police cordon at a crime scene in which Southend West MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death in Leigh-on-Sea, Great Britain on 15 October 2021. © ANSA / EPA
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A photo of Sir David Anthony Andrew Amess, Conservative Party member and British MP, with his dogs. The politician was assassinated in 2021 during a meeting with voters from his college in Leigh-on-Sea. © ANSA / EPA
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lies on the ground after being shot at outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara, Japan on July 8, 2022. © ANSA / EPA
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) takes the podium to speak to voters in support of his party's candidate on July 8, 2022, shortly before being shot and killed. © ANSA / EPA
From the killings of the Kennedy brothers to the killer of British MP Jo Fox.
It is not the first time that a politician has been attacked with fatal consequences.
Here are some of the precedents from the last few decades.
INEJIRO ASANUMA
- The leader of the Japanese Socialist Party is stabbed to death with a sword by 17-year-old right-wing extremist Futaya Yamaguchi during a rally in Tokyo.
He was on October 13, 1960.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
- On November 22, 1963, the 35th president of the United States was killed in Dallas: Kennedy was in the presidential limousine with his wife Jacqueline Bouvier when he was hit in the head by a rifle shot.
The shooting was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former marine, who a few days later dies murdered in turn.
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY
- Senator Bob was shot dead on the night of June 5-6, 1968 in Los Angeles, following his victory in the California primary.
The murderer, arrested and convicted, is Sirhan B. Sirhan, a Jordanian citizen of Palestinian origin, who motivated the gesture in retaliation for Kennedy's support of Israel in the 6-day war, which began a year and a day before the attack.
ANWAR AL-SADAT
- The Egyptian president was shot and killed during a military parade in Cairo on 6 October 1981 by Khalid al-Islambuli, a member of a terrorist organization that intended to punish him for the peace stipulated with Israel.
The killer will then be tried and executed in 1982 along with other accomplices of him.
OLOF PALME
- The Swedish Prime Minister, a leading figure in Social Democracy, was shot dead on February 28, 1986 in Stockholm, while returning home with his wife.
The killer managed to escape.
YITZHAK RABIN
- On November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in Tel Aviv by a Jewish extremist at the end of a demonstration for peace.
Rabin is hit by three bullets fired at close range by 27-year-old Israeli Ygal Amir.
BENAZIR BHUTTO
- Elected twice prime minister of Pakistan (1988-1990 and 1993-1996) and the first woman in modern times to lead a Muslim country, she died on December 27, 2007 following a suicide attack at the end of a crowded rally. in Rawalpindi.
Of her To kill her a policeman who fires a pistol at her;
a few moments later an attacker blows himself up causing a massacre.
JO COX
- On June 16, 2016, Helen Joanne Cox, a 41-year-old British Labor MP and a fervent pro-European, was stabbed several times and hit by several bullets by a right-wing extremist on the eve of the Brexit referendum.
A 52-year-old Englishman, Tommy Mair, is arrested for the murder.
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