The Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishidawas evacuated when a strong burst this Saturday while visiting the saikazaki port from the city of wakayamain the west of the country, without being injured in the attack. The detonation occurred around 11:30 a.m. local time (04:30 a.m. on the peninsula) while the president was preparing to give a speech within the framework of the local elections. Kishida was immediately withdrawn from the area by the security services, who also immediately arrested the person allegedly responsible for launching the cylindrical object which exploded similar to a smoke bombaccording to local media.
The Japanese authorities confirmed that the person arrested is a 24 year old man called Ryuji Kimurawho was wearing another explosive second. The young man, who refuses to testify Until his lawyer arrives and he is in police custody, he is a resident of the city of Kawanishi, in Hyogo Prefecture, also located in western Japan, according to the driver’s license he carried with him.
“I was able to escape”
Kishida was in the port with the aim of giving a rally in favor of one of his party’s candidates, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) when the suspect threw the alleged explosive object in the area, where there were “hundreds of people”, the authorities specify.
In the images taken by the state television channel NHK, a group of five policemen can be seen immobilizing the alleged perpetrator on the ground, in addition to the rest of the people fleeing the area. between screams. “I saw that something was thrown, but I was able to escape and at that time I could hear the explosion,” the prime minister told a senior member of his party, according to the same outlet.
Just before 11:30 a.m. today, at Saikazaki fishing port in Wakayama City, just before Prime Minister Kishida finished his inspection tour and began his speech, there was a loud explosion. Prime Minister Kishida is said to have evacuated from the scene.
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An hour after the incident, the president resumed his electoral acts scheduled for today. “We are going to hold important elections [locales] for our country, and we must work together to move them forward,” Kishida said in another campaign speech he made before the incident.
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Los political speeches on the street are common in Japan, a country with a crime rate very low. However, the attack on In person occurs nine months after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abewhat died after being shot in the back with a homemade firearm while giving an election speech in the city of Nara.
Furthermore, the event occurs on the same weekend that Japan hosts two ministerial meetings of the G7, Foreign Affairs and Energy and Environment. A summit of leaders of that group of countries is scheduled for the end of next month in the city of Hiroshima.