Police in Japan consider that the suspect in the death of Shinzo Abe "chose the most lethal weapon"

MADRID, 10 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Police in Japan believe that the suspect who shot former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe deliberately chose a weapon that was highly lethal.

Tetsuya Yamagami has confessed that he had "made several homemade weapons", among them, he had tried to make a bomb, with the aim of creating a firearm "as lethal as possible", according to police sources to which the newspaper 'Kyodo News'.

For this reason, the Police consider that the murder suspect was intentionally trying to manufacture a firearm that was as lethal as possible, collects the NHK television channel.

Officers searched Yamagami's home in the western city of Nara and seized weapons similar to the apparently homemade one found at the scene where Abe was shot.

According to preliminary reports, the gun used in the shooting is believed to have been made from two tubes wrapped in duct tape.

As for the reasons for the event, Yamagami stated that he had a personal grudge against a religious organization that he suspected had links to Abe.

The alleged murderer, a 41-year-old ex-military man, would have attacked Abe because his mother had given large sums of money to the Christian religious group called the Unification Church to the point of going bankrupt, according to the newspaper 'Gendai Business'.

"I was going for a member of a religious group, but I thought it would be very difficult, so I went for former Prime Minister Abe," Yamagami said. "My mother was a believer in the Unification Church and Shinzo Abe was related to the Unification Church," she said, according to the Japanese press.