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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was taken to hospital after he was reportedly shot on Friday in Nara, a city in western Japan, and was said to have been in a critical condition.
Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, collapsed and appeared to have been shot in the chest around 11:30 a.m. local time near Yamato-Saidaiji Station.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida suspended his election campaign after Abe’s collapse. At a press conference, Kishida condemned the shooting, calling it an unacceptable attack on the foundation of Japan’s democracy, while adding that Abe was in critical condition and that doctors were doing everything they can.
The 67-year-old Abe was delivering a speech for a Liberal Democratic Party of Japan candidate’s election campaign ahead of elections for Japan’s upper house, the less powerful chamber of its parliament, to be held on Sunday.
A reporter for public broadcaster NHK, who was at the scene, said she heard what sounded like two consecutive gunshots and then saw Abe bleeding. Footage aired by the station captured the moment he fell on the street, after which several security guards ran toward him. He was holding his chest. MORE
RIP Abe……
FJB
He’s dead Jim…
FTP
Heard on the radio this is now officially an assassination.
I guess He was keeping it Leal…
The Japanese have reported that Shinzo Abe has died from his wounds.
That’s sad.
Kind of puts a dent in the liberals’ narrative.
Although they’ll make some excuse in the media about Japan’s strict gun controls working.
In Japan, he’s considered a conservative nationalist. Can’t imagine which utterly insane leftist political manifesto his assassin adheres to.
Japan has total gun control. No citizens allowed to have guns unless leo or mil.
Word has it a zip gun made of metal tubes was seen on stage after they arrested him.
Guns are not hard to make. People will arm themselves by any means necessary, particularly against tyrants.
And no politician can be protected against a lone man who is so aggrieved that he is willing to spend his own life to take another.
Just saying.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1545269523817046016
Yakuza
A trend that would be welcome in many places. Time will tell.
God speed, Abe.
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