The health services are trying to recover his vital signs, after having suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest. The alleged aggressor, a 41-year-old former member of the Army, has been arrested.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest after being hit with shotgun fire during an electoral act this Friday, and is now in a very serious condition, according to local authorities.
Abe has been transferred by ambulance and later by helicopter after the incident and the health services are trying to restore your vital signsaccording to the police and health services of the city of Nara (western Japan), where the attack occurred.
Apparently, the former Japanese president has received shotgun blasts in the back while offering a campaign speech on the street near a train station in the aforementioned town, according to local police, who have arrested a man as the alleged perpetrator of the attack.
Eyewitnesses to the attack say that two shots were heard at the scene and that Abe then collapsed to the ground, according to the state network NHK.
The incident occurred around 11:30 local time this Friday (04:30 in the Basque Country) and in the presence of numerous citizens who were attending the campaign event or were walking near the Yamato-Saidaiji station.
The detainee, a former member of the Army
The detainee is Yamagami Tetsuya, a 41-year-old man and former member of the Maritime Self-Defense Forces (Japanese Army).
Tetsuya, from the city of Nara, in western Japan, has been arrested while holding a weapon with which he would have shot the former Japanese president twice.
According to sources from the Japanese Ministry of Defense, the alleged aggressor worked in the naval branch of the Self-Defense Forces, in charge of defending the archipelago, for three years until 2005.
Sentence
Several world leaders have condemned this Friday the attack against Abe. Among the voices that have been raised after the attack are Pedro Sánchez, Jens Stoltenberg, Ursula Von der Leyen, Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinta Arden or Charles Michael, among others.
The current Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, has stated that Abe is “very serious” and has called what happened a “barbaric act” that he condemns “in the strongest terms.”
“I sincerely hope that the former prime minister survives,” Kishida said in an appearance before the press, before stressing that the act “cannot be forgiven.” “The government wants to take all possible measures to anticipate and respond to any such situation in the future,” he added.
Abe, the longest-serving prime minister
Abe stepped down as prime minister for health reasons in September 2020, after becoming the longest-serving Japanese politician in office.
The conservative leader was today at a campaign event for the partial elections to the Upper House of the Diet (Parliament of Japan) that are held this Sunday, in which the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) of Abe and the current prime minister , Fumio Kishida, hopes to revalidate his vast majority.
Election rallies are usually held in Japan in the middle of the street and with few security measures, due to the low rate of crime and attacks with firearms typical of the Asian country.
Source: Eitb
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