The Japanese police chief, Itaru Nakamura, announced his resignation following the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe , who was killed last July during an election rally in Nara .
This was announced by Nakamura himself, commissioner general of the National Police Agency, in the press conference held today and dedicated - reports Kyodo - to the results of the investigation into the gaps in the security system set up at that meeting .
On July 8, Abe was giving a speech in Nara in favor of the re-election of his party's candidate to the House of Councilors Kei Satō when he was hit by two gunshots, the first in the neck and the second, fatal, in the heart. .
Transported to the Kashihara hospital he was later pronounced dead of bleeding.
Tetsuya Yamagami , a 41-year-old ex-soldier of the Kaijō Jieitai, a Japanese maritime military force, was immediately identified and arrested by the local police. The motive is still unclear.
"While the verifications of what happened are going on, we believe that our security plan must open a new phase, start over with the support of a different organization," said Nakamura at a press conference. According to security experts, the arrangement of the bodyguards in Nara was totally inadequate .
(Unioneonline / D)
