Kyodo: Japan prosecutors to indict suspected Abe assassin

Tetsuya Yamagami (right), the man accused of murdering former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is escorted by police while leaving the Nara Nishi police station to head to the prosecutor's office in Nara on July 10, 2022. (STR / JIJI PRESS / AFP)

TOKYO – Japanese prosecutors have decided to indict the man suspected of shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kyodo news agency and other Japanese media reported on Saturday.

The decision follows psychiatric examination of the suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, an unemployed 42-year-old.

Yamagami's detention for mental examination will end on Jan 10, and Nara prosecutors will likely indict him by Jan 13, according to Kyodo

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Yamagami's detention for mental examination will end on Jan 10, and Nara prosecutors will likely indict him by Jan 13, according to Kyodo. The prosecutors were not immediately available for comment on Saturday.