Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assassination attempt (FULL VIDEO)

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 67, was shot in the chest during a speech in the city of Nara, in western Japan, on Friday (8) – night of Thursday, 7, in Brazil.

Abe was attacked during a speech near Yamato-Saidaiji station in Nara and fell. The image shows the former prime minister on the ground, with his hands on his chest and shirt bloodied. At least two shots were fired, a reporter from the state news agency “NHK” reported.

The former prime minister was taken unconscious to a hospital. “Kyodo News” reported that “Abe suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest.” NHK spoke of “heart failure,” which means that the heart cannot pump enough blood and provide the necessary oxygen to the rest of the body.

Local media said that one suspect was arrested for attempted murder: A 41-year-old man named Tetsuya Yamagami, a former JMSDF member, was immediately arrested and later confessed to local police. Yamagami said he held a grudge against the Unification Church[314][315][316] and shot Abe because "the religious group and Abe were connected". Yamagami said his mother had been brainwashed by the religious group, giving the church all of his family's money and leaving them so destitute that he and his siblings often did not have enough to eat. They became so despondent, he added, that his brother had committed suicide and he himself had attempted