Nara – Japanese public prosecutors on Monday began the process of a psychiatric examination of the man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to see whether he can bear criminal liability.
On Monday, Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, left a police station in the western city of Nara around 10:15 a.m. in a Nara Prefectural Police vehicle, arriving at the Osaka Detention House in the nearby city of Osaka an hour later.
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