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A6 WORLD NEWS
Monday 11 July 2022
Abe’s killing haunts Japan with questions on handmade guns

By YURI KAGEYAMA Sasaki said he couldn’t be-
Associated Press lieve that no one moved
TOKYO (AP) — The shoot- to protect Abe in the sec-
ing sent shudders through onds between the first and
low-crime, orderly Japan: A the second shot, a scene
high-profile politician gets shown over and over on
killed by a man emerging national TV.
from a crowd, wielding Guards should have acted
a handmade firearm so by physically pulling Abe
roughly made it’s wrapped away from danger, Sa-
up in tape. saki said. More critically,
The 40-centimeter-long (16- he wondered why weren’t
inch) firearm that was used they aware of a suspi-
to kill former Prime Minister cious person approaching,
Shinzo Abe on Friday as he drawing what could be a
campaigned for his ruling weapon from a bag?
party in Nara, western Ja- Isao Itabashi, chief of the
pan, looked crude, more research division at the
like a propellant made of Council for Public Policy,
pipes taped together and which oversees such risks,
filled with explosives. said that providing security
A raid of the suspect’s during an election cam-
home, a one-room apart- paign was challenging
ment in Nara, turned up Suspect Tetsuya Yamagami holds a weapon, as he is detained near the site of gunshots in Nara, when the whole point is for
several such guns, po- western Japan, Friday, July 8, 2022. Associated Press politicians to get close to
lice said. Unlike standard people.
weapons, handmade guns ble weapons. oped hatred toward a reli- after the American Secret Unlike the U.S., the use of
are practically impossible Crime experts say instruc- gious group that his mother Service. bulletproof glass is relatively
to trace, making an inves- tions on how to make guns was obsessed about and Hideto Ted Osanai, chief scant in Japan, and secu-
tigation difficult. are floating around on the that caused his family fi- executive at the Interna- rity officials rarely resort to
Such weapons are rarely internet, and guns can be nancial problems. The re- tional Bodyguard Associa- shooting potential attack-
used in Japan, where most made with a 3D printer. ports did not specify the tion in Japan, and other ers.
attacks involve stabbings or Some analysts character- group. experts believe that the “The presumption here
dousing a place with gaso- ized the attack on Abe as Japan has seen attacks Japanese may have mere- is that people are not
line and setting it ablaze, “lone-wolf terrorism.” In on politicians in the past. ly learned superficial things armed,” Itabashi said.
or running haywire on the such cases, the perpetra- In 1960, Abe’s grandfather, like escort formation rather “Japan’s conformist culture
street in a vehicle. tor acts alone, often in sym- then-Prime Minister Nobu- than the prevention mind- makes it difficult for some
Strict gun control laws likely pathy with certain political suke Kishi, was stabbed set critical to security. people to live freely, and
made the suspect choose views, making the crime but survived. In 1975, when “Japanese are so used they put great pressure
a handcrafted weapon. very difficult to detect in then-Prime Minister Takeo to leading peaceful lives, on themselves. When they
Tetsuya Yamagami, who advance. Miki was assaulted at the the security guards were blame themselves, they
was arrested on the spot, The motive for Abe’s assas- funeral for former Prime caught asleep,” says Ya- turn to suicide. When they
was a former member of sination remains unclear. Minister Eisaku Sato, Abe’s suhiro Sasaki, president of blame others, they turn to
Japan’s navy, and knew Japanese media reported great-uncle, Japan set up Safety-Pro, a Tokyo-based indiscriminate crimes,” he
how to handle and assem- that the suspect had devel- a security team modeled security company. said.q

South Africa police say 15 killed in bar

shooting in Soweto

bar shortly after midnight and why they were target- people were shot dead by
Sunday. The number of car- ing these people,” he said. unknown gunmen at a tav-
tridges found on the scene “You can see that a high ern in Sweetwaters town-
indicates that a group of caliber firearm was used ship in the coastal city of Pi-
people opened fire in the and it was shooting ran- etermaritzburg on Saturday
bar, said Gauteng prov- domly. You can see that night.
ince police commissioner every one of those people According to the police,
Lt. Gen. Elias Mawela. were struggling to get out two men entered the tav-
“The primary investigation of the tavern,” Mawela told ern and randomly opened
suggests that these people The Associated Press. fire on the patrons, killing
were enjoying themselves The area where the shoot- two people on the scene
A woman weeps at the scene of an overnight bar shooting in here, in a licensed tavern ing took place was very while two others were con-
Soweto, South Africa, Sunday July 10, 2022. operating within the right dark, making it harder to firmed dead at the hospi-
Associated Press hours,” Mawela told The As- find people who could tal. Police said 8 other peo-
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME cal condition, according to sociated Press. identify the suspects, he ple are receiving treatment
Associated Press police. “All of a sudden they heard said. Rifles and a 9 mm in a hospital. The deceased
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Police say they are investi- some gunshots, that is when pistol were used in the at- were aged between 30
mass shooting at a tavern gating reports that a group people tried to run out of tack, said national police and 45 and police are in-
in Johannesburg’s Soweto of men arrived in a minibus the tavern. We don’t have spokeswoman Col. Dimak- vestigating charges of mur-
township has killed 15 peo- taxi and opened fire on the full details at the mo- atso Sello. der and attempted mur-
ple and left others in criti- some of the patrons at the ment of what is the motive, In a separate incident, four der, police said. q