Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assassinated

[krtek a houby]

Couldn't stand him, but this is grim

Ex-PM Abe shot from behind while campaigning in Nara

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Looks like it. Seeing on twitter that he's dead.

 

[krtek a houby]

Fucking hell. Hard to get the head around it. The resident right wing Americans will be crowing about Japan's strict gun controls. But this is rare.

 

[maomao]

Shotgun from behind, bleeding from the chest, sounds messy. Who wanted him dead?

 

[krtek a houby]

Shotgun from behind, bleeding from the chest, sounds messy. Who wanted him dead?

Could be linked to the school/land scandal that dogged him for a few years?

Or some random...

 

[maomao]

It's the nationalists that like offing politicians in Japan though hasn't happened for a while.

 

[JimW]

Chinese news has pics of the murderer being wrestled to the ground, twenty something Japanese bloke by looks of him. ETA scratch that, story says he's 42 and local, should read too.

 

[JimW]

Shotgun from behind, bleeding from the chest, sounds messy. Who wanted him dead?

Now saying pistol, apparently.

 

[andysays]

Are there any confirmed reports yet that he's actually dead? BBC has this

Shinzo Abe: Japan ex-PM injured after reported gunshot attack​

 

[JimW]

Giving a name now too, 山上彻也 and saying he's 41 and unemployed.

 

[platinumsage]

Shooter was a former navy guy according to Wiki

 

[krtek a houby]

The term cardiopulmonary arrest would indicate he's dead.

 

[JimW]

Are there any confirmed reports yet that he's actually dead? BBC has this

Shinzo Abe: Japan ex-PM injured after reported gunshot attack​

Latest here seems to be critical but not confirmed dead.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Fuck me was not expecting to wake up to that

 

[SpookyFrank]

Bugger, I had Akihito in the death pool but not Abe.

 

[JimW]

Now reading confirmed dead. One wag in comments here had "Breaking news, former premier Abe has gone to visit US president Kennedy."

 

[Cid]

It's the nationalists that like offing politicians in Japan though hasn't happened for a while.

He was a nationalist though... And grandson of Nobusuke Kishi. Though god knows how internal nationalist politics play out there.

 

[Cid]

Now reading confirmed dead. One wag in comments here had "Breaking news, former premier Abe has gone to visit US president Kennedy."

Only the second Abe...

(this is a fucking batshit thing to wake up to, but the man was awful)

 

[nogojones]

 

[Idris2002]

Home made gun, apparently.

 

[tim]

Fuck me was not expecting to wake up to that

Most things in the early morning surprise me too. Still at least you managed to wake up. Abe is not expected to wake up at all.

 

[Crispy]

If you're this committed, no amount of gun control can stop you, I guess.

 

[Cid]

Confirmed dead (international edition).

Shinzo Abe death: shock in Japan at killing of former PM during election campaign

Police believe attacker bore grudge against Abe as some critics question level of security surrounding Japan’s longest-serving PM

www.theguardian.com

 

[Yossarian]

Would have been better if the assassin had eliminated Abe by going back in time and killing his war criminal grandfather, but I guess even Japan hasn't got that technology yet.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Seems a bit random. Do ex Japanese PMs not have any security detail?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Seems a bit random. Do ex Japanese PMs not have any security detail?

Would imagine this bloke's job is in that area...

 

[platinumsage]

Yeah I'm pretty sure Reagan had a security detail when he was shot, as did Yitzhak Rabin, JFK etc..

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Fucked up with the risk assessment then!

 

[AmateurAgitator]

A good old assassination of a member of the bourgeoisie, how quaint.

 

[nogojones]

Would imagine this bloke's job is in that area...

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I imagine that blokes old job was in that area