Japan's National Police Agency chief said he wanted to resign to take responsibility for the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July
A picture of late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was gunned down while campaigning for a parliamentary election, is seen at Headquarters of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo, Japan July 12, 2022.
Itaru Nakamura is the most senior official to step down in connection with Abe's assassination at a campaign rally in the western city of Nara on July 8, where experts have said security was seriously flawed. "In the process of verifying our new security plan, we have come to realise that our security duties would need a fresh start," Nakamura told a news conference."To mark our fresh start with a new security plan, it is only natural for us to build a new organization."Bodyguards could have saved Abe by shielding him or pulled him from the line of fire in the 2.
The National Police Agency previously told Reuters the killing had been the result of police failing to fulfil their responsibility, adding that it had set up a team to review security and protection measures and develop preventive steps. The suspected assassin, arrested at the scene moments after the shooting, is undergoing psychiatric evaluation, Japanese media reported last month.Reporting by Sakura Murakami, Mariko Katsumura and Dave Dolan; Writing by Elaine Lies; Editing by Christopher Cushing and Clarence Fernandez
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