Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, sent, this Saturday, messages to the Emperor and Prime Minister of Japan, Naruhito and Fumio Kishida, respectively, to express feelings of regret over the “tragic death” of Shinzo Abe, former Japanese Prime Minister.
The Head of State, in his contact with the two entities, praises the role played by Shinzo Abe, who, as Prime Minister, “exercised his duties with recognized dynamism, energy, zeal and dedication and always with a sense of duty and surrender to the execution of the tasks assigned to it”.
João Lourenço also highlights the fact that the late former Japanese Prime Minister paid particular attention to issues involving the African continent and, in particular, cooperation with Angola.
Shinzo Abe died on Friday after being shot during an election rally in Nara, a city in western Japan, NHK news agency reported. Abe, 67, was hit in the back while delivering a speech in the street ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for today.
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), to which he belonged, announced the death after the Health Services announced that Abe had been taken by helicopter to a hospital, in cardiac arrest, according to the Spanish agency Efe, adding that the leader had been shot. with two shots in the back, on the left side and in the neck. The alleged shooter was arrested at the scene holding a gun with which he allegedly fired both shots at Shinzo Abe.
Investigations
The Japanese police continued, this Saturday, to investigate the motives that led to the murder of the former Prime Minister.
Tetsuya Yamagami, an unemployed ex-military man suspected of the attack on Abe, told authorities that he planned the attack out of resentment towards “a specific organization”, a police official said on Friday, speaking to journalists. “And she confessed to committing the crime because she believed that former Prime Minister Abe was related to her,” he added.
In his statements to the authorities, the alleged aggressor also mentioned family problems due to the fact that his mother belongs to the same organization. In confused statements, Yamagami will have stressed, however, that he did not hold “any grudge against him (Abe) because of his political principles”.
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