Abe's confessed killer singled out the former prime minister for promoting a religious group that bankrupted his mother

MADRID, 9 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The author of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had pointed out the politician for promoting a religious group that ended up ruining his mother due to the excess of donations that she gave them, sources close to the investigation reported this Saturday to the official Japanese news agency Kyodo.

Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, has confessed that his first intention was to kill the leader of that group, whose name has not been specified, under the false assumption that he was accompanying the former prime minister during the speech he was giving at the Nara city at the time Yamagami carried out the attack.

Yamagami has acknowledged that he had repeatedly visited other places where Abe had delivered campaign speeches ahead of Sunday's election to the House of Councilors, the lower house of the Japanese Diet.

The defendant has pointed out, according to the same sources, that at no time did he attack Abe for his political beliefs, compared to the first reports that the former prime minister was assassinated by an individual contrary to his conservative and nationalist ideas.