Kyodo News reported on the 19th that Ryuji Kimura (24), who was arrested for throwing an explosive at Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during an election campaign, criticized Prime Minister Kishida through Twitter in the past as a “hereditary politician.” .
According to the report, on Twitter, which is believed to be Kimura’s, in September of last year, “Prime Minister Kishida is also the 3rd generation hereditary. A person who ignores the will of the people cannot normally be a politician.”
Attached to the article was a news link in which Prime Minister Kishida explained former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s bureau chief at the Diet. It is interpreted to mean that Prime Minister Kishida ignored the public opinion against former Prime Minister Abe’s directorship at the time.
Kimura argued, “The cause of (politician) hereditary succession is widespread because there is an unconstitutional public office election law that requires 3 million yen (about 30 million won) or deposit money,” and “the common people cannot run for office, and democracy collapses.”
Under the Public Official Election Act of Japan, members of the House of Councilors and governors of metropolitan governments must be over 30 years old, and members of the House of Representatives (House of Representatives) and heads of local governments must be over 25 years old to run for election. Kimura, young and unable to prepare deposit money, was unable to run for the House of Councilors elections last year.
In June of the same year, Kimura demanded damages of 100,000 yen (approximately 1 million won) from the government, saying, “A plaintiff in his early 20s filed a lawsuit against the government because he could not run for the upper house election due to reasons such as age restrictions on the right to vote.” I posted a post with a photo of the requested collection attached.
In August of the same year, along with the hashtag ‘#Unification Church’, he said, “Even if you run for state elections, the opponent you will fight is the organization chart of a religious organization, an existing politician with an unpaid campaigner.” I even posted an article claiming it.
At around 11:25 a.m. on the 15th, Kimura threw a silver metal pipe-shaped object at Prime Minister Kishida, who was about to campaign at the Saikazaki fishing port in Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture, southern Osaka. The explosive exploded about 50 seconds after the fall, and Prime Minister Kishida and the citizens at the scene escaped immediately and were not injured.
Kimura was arrested as a red-handed criminal. The police said that at the time of arrest, Kimura was carrying a weapon such as a knife with a blade length of 13 cm.
Meanwhile, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported that investigators investigating the scene found a circular metal part that appeared to be part of an explosive about 60 meters away from the explosion site. This part was driven into the wall of a barn, presumably made of wood. Traces of explosives were also confirmed on the outer wall of the warehouse, about 40 meters away from the point of explosion.
A Japanese firearms researcher told the newspaper, “Considering that the weighty metal lid flew long distances, it is judged to have considerable power. If a person was hit, there is a possibility that it would be stuck in the body like a bullet and cause the worst situation.”
Fragments of explosives used in the attack on Prime Minister Kishida on the 15th got stuck in a container near the site and pierced a hole. NHK broadcast screen captureSource: Donga
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