A group of fishermen who tackled the suspect in the second attack against a leading Japanese politician in less than a year said Sunday that they were suprised by the lax security for Prime Ministe…
WAKAYAMA, Japan — A group of fishermen who tackled the suspect in the second attack against a leading Japanese politician in less than a year said Sunday that they were suprised by the lax security for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
The prime minister was unhurt but like many others in Japan Konishi was mulling Sunday what the country should do to better protect public figures. “People here all dress like me, and nobody carries a backpack; it was only him,” Nishide said, wearing a sweatsuit and red rubber boots. “If I were in charge of security, I would have asked for a bag check.”
Yamagami told investigators that he killed Abe, one of Japan’s most influential and divisive politicians, because of the former prime minister’s apparent links to a religious group that Yamagami hated. In statements and in social media postings attributed to him, Yamagami said his mother had made donations to the Unification Church that bankrupted his family and ruined his life.
Compared with the U.S. elections, audience at political campaigns in Japan are often allowed to be quite close to dignitaries. At the campaign event for Kishida the front-row audience was within touching distance.
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