The head of the National Police Agency of the Japan Itaru Nakamura expressed this Thursday (25) his desire to resign to take responsibility for the assassination of the former prime minister. Shinzo Abe in July, local newspaper Nikkei reported.
Nakamura previously lamented the police’s failure to protect Abe at his July 8 campaign rally and admitted that there were flaws in the protection plan for the former premier.
The fact that a former prime minister was shot dead at close range in broad daylight in a country with one of the lowest gun crime rates in the world shook Japan and reverberated around the world.
Abe, 67, was pronounced dead just over five hours after he was shot while delivering a campaign speech in front of a small crowd on a street.
At the time of the shooting, Abe was speaking out in support of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidates ahead of the country’s upper house elections.
Despite stepping down as Japan’s prime minister in 2020 for health reasons, the former prime minister has remained an influential figure in the country’s political landscape and has continued to campaign for the LDP.
Source: CNN Brasil
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