The gunman attacked Shinzo Abe, a 67-year old former head of Japan's government, during a rally in Nara, western Japan, for Sunday's senatorial elections. Shinzo Abe, the former head of Japan's government, has set new longevity records. He has also resisted many financial and political scandals that have plagued his life and those who are close to him.
These 14 great political figures have been assassinated since the dawn of the 20th Century, just before the ex-Japan Prime Minister.
A Bosnian Serb nationalist assassinated the Heir of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo. This assassination was considered to be the trigger for the First World War.
One year later, as he was inaugurating a salon for veteran authors, the President of France was assassinated. He did this with a firearm that Paul Gorgulov, a Russian immigrant, had purchased.
Officials from the State of Katanga, with the help of the American and Belgian secret services, killed this figure of independence for the Belgian Congo on January 17, 1961. From June 1960 to September 1960, he was prime minister.
This is without doubt the most well-known attack on a head of state. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated the American president at 43 years old in Dallas Texas. Since January 1961, he had been elected as the leader of the country.
On December 20, 1973, a Madrid attack killed the Spanish Prime Minister. As his car was passing, four members of ETA set off a bomb in a tunnel under the street.
Since 1970, President of Egypt, he was assassinated by Egyptian Islamic Jihad members at Cairo's annual victory parade. They opposed the Israeli-Israeli negotiations.
Two Sikh bodyguards killed the Prime Minister of India on October 31, 1984 in New Delhi. They avenged an attack by the Indian army on a temple that was a sacred site for the Sikhs. Rajiv Gandhi, his son and successor from 1984 to 1989, was murdered by a Tamil extremist on May 21, 1991.
The murder of the Swedish Prime Minister in Stockholm, February 28, 1986 was a tragic accident. 34 years later, justice pronounced Stig Engstrom, who was killed in 2000, the presumptive culprit. This ended the investigation into the murder, which has remained a national tragedy.
Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister, was assassinated by a Jewish extremist from 1977 to 1977, and then again from 1992 to his assassination in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995.
His bodyguard assassinated him on January 16, 2001. He had been President of the Democratic Republic of Congo after he overthrew Mobutu back in 1997.
On September 10, 2003, the Swedish Foreign Minister was murdered in Stockholm. He was attacked with multiple stab wounds to his stomach. Two weeks later, the murderer was arrested.
The Prime Minister of Lebanon, 1992-1998, and then 2000-2004, was murdered in Beirut on February 14, 2005. Twenty people were killed and 100 injured in the suicide attack.
On December 27, 2007, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan was attacked near Islamabad. She was the leader of the opposition at the time and was campaigning to win the 2008 legislative elections. The attack resulted in the deaths of 13 people.
A commando made up of 26 Colombian soldiers and two Americans from Haiti took control of the official residence the Haitian president's residence on July 6, 2021. The president's guard doesn't react. At 1 a.m. on July 7, commandos killed the head of state.
