Japan: Shinzo Abe assassination suspect charged and fit to stand trial

Japanese prosecutors have charged the man suspected of the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last July.

The suspect was declared fit to stand trial after a long psychiatric expertise, several Japanese media reported on Friday.

Prosecuted in particular for murder, Tetsuya Yamagami, 42, was arrested immediately after the facts in Nara, west of Japan.

This is where the former Japanese leader was giving a speech at an election rally when he was shot dead.

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At the time, the suspect told police that he had served in the Maritime Self-Defense Force, the Japanese Navy, for three years from 2002. More recently, he had worked in a factory in western Japan for approximately a year and a half, before resigning.

“The suspect stated that he resented a certain organization and that he committed the crime because he believed former Prime Minister Abe had a connection to it,” police commented.

Tetsuya Yamagami's family had struggled due to his mother's donations to the organization.