Shinzo Abe information: Japan church denies hyperlink to suspect Tetsuya Yamagami | World News

Japan's Unification Church has denied any hyperlink to Tetsuya Yamagami - who assassinated ex-prime minister Shinzo Abe final week believing he promoted the group that defrauded his mom - however admitted Yamagami's mom is a member. Neither Tetsuya nor Abe are members, Tomihiro Tanaka, the president of the Japanese department of the Household Federation for World Peace and Unification, often known as the Unification Church, informed reporters in Tokyo.

Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, fired two bullets from a do-it-yourself shotgun at Abe on Friday, whereas the two-time former PM was making an election speech.

Abe slipped right into a cardiac arrest whereas being rushed to hospital and died hours later after huge blood loss from his accidents.

Yamagami was tackled by surprised safety guards; Japanese media studies stated he made no try and get away.

Police sources later informed the Kyodo News company Yamagami declared he needed to assault the chief of the group that he claimed had left his mom bankrupt.

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It's unclear if the Unification Church is that group and Tanaka refused to supply particulars of any donations Yamagami's mom might have made.

He stated folks did make sizeable donations however careworn that none, together with any the suspect's mom made, have been pressured.

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Tanaka additionally stated Yamagami's mom joined the church within the late Nineteen Nineties however had solely just lately turn into a daily customer - about as soon as a month.

"... quantity of donations is as much as every particular person. We're grateful to those that give giant donations, however nothing is required."

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Reuters stated it was unable to contact Yamagami's mom for particulars of any donation, if any, or to test is she belongs to every other non secular organisations.

Japanese studies point out Yamagami's mom filed for chapter in 2002.

Tanaka additionally stated Abe might have spoken at occasions hosted by affiliated teams.

Yamagami is in prosecutors' custody and never obtainable for remark.

On Abe's dying, Tanaka stated: "That is one thing that ought to by no means have occurred, and I really feel a deep outrage. My coronary heart aches that Japan has misplaced a beloved and revered chief."

The Unification Church was based in South Korea in 1954 by Solar Myung Moon, a self-declared messiah and strident anti-communist. It gained international consideration for mass weddings - 1000's of couples are married at a time.

With enter from AFP, Reuters