Shinzo Abe’s last trip: Japanese bid farewell to killed ex-prime minister (video)

STORY: Shinzo Abe on his last trip through the Japanese capital Tokyo. The body of the dead former Japanese Prime Minister was driven through the metropolis in a car on Tuesday. In this way, the country’s citizens should have another opportunity to say goodbye to the country’s longest-serving prime minister. The hearse departed from a temple in central Tokyo in the early afternoon local time and then passed important places on its route, such as Nagatacho, the capital’s political center, as well as the prime minister’s office and the parliament building, which Abe first built in 1993 as a young MP once entered. Abe then later served as Prime Minister from 2012 to 2020. A few days ago, at the age of 67, he was murdered at an election campaign event by a man with a homemade pistol. According to media reports, the motive of the 41-year-old assassin, who confessed to the crime, was dissatisfaction with the politician Abe. The country is still in shock because political violence and gun crime are extremely rare in Japan.