Und das in JAPAN!!!

[Hollowpoint]

Im (fast) völlig entwaffneten Japan hat ein Gangsterboss dem Bürgermeister von Hiroshima erschossen, weil er 2003 mit seiner Karre in ein Schlagloch fuhr und diese dabei beschädigte. Die Versicherungsgesellschaft und die Stadt weigerten sich, ihm dafür eine Entschädigung zu zahlen. Das war für den Herrn Mafiosi anscheinend Grung genug, Bürgermeister Ito in den Rücken zu schießen.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070417/ap_on_re_as/japan_mayor_shooting

Report: Japanese mayor killed by mobster By HIROKO TABUCHI, Associated Press Writer

Tue Apr 17, 7:35 PM ET

TOKYO - The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki was shot to death in a brazen attack Tuesday by an organized crime chief apparently enraged that the city refused to compensate him after his car was damaged at a public works construction site, news agencies reported.

The shooting was rare in a country where handguns are strictly banned and only four politicians are known to have been killed since World War II.

Mayor Iccho Ito, 61, was shot twice in the back at point-blank range outside a train station Tuesday evening, Nagasaki police official Rumi Tsujimoto said.

One of the bullets struck the mayor's heart and he went into cardiac arrest, according to Nagasaki University Hospital spokesman Kenzo Kusano. Kyodo News agency and national broadcaster NHK said Ito died of his wounds early Wednesday.

Tetsuya Shiroo, a senior member of Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, was wrestled to the ground by officers after the attack and arrested for attempted murder, police said.

He later admitted to shooting Ito with a handgun with the intent to kill, Nagasaki chief investigator Kazuki Umebayashi said at a news conference.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for a "rigorous investigation."

It was the second attack in the last 20 years against a mayor of Nagasaki, which was destroyed by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945 and whose leaders have actively campaigned against militarism.

In 1990, Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima was shot and seriously wounded after saying that Japan's emperor, beloved by rightists, bore some responsibility for World War II.

Tuesday's attack appeared to involve a more trivial matter, however.

Shiroo reportedly clashed with Nagasaki city officials in 2003 after his car was damaged when he drove into a hole at a public works site. He tried unsuccessfully to get compensation from the city after his insurance company refused to pay up, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK.

Shiroo also sent a letter to broadcaster TV Asahi to protest recent money scandals linked to Ito, including hidden accounts and public works contracts, Kyodo reported.

Backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Ito was campaigning for his fourth term in office before Sunday's elections. He was an active figure in the movement against nuclear proliferation, heading a coalition of Japanese cities calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

"Mayor Ito had a strong and boundless passion for peace," said Sunao Tsuboi, leader of a survivors' group based in Hiroshima, a city also flattened by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945. "We all pray for his recovery."

Commonly known as yakuza, Japan's organized crime groups are typically involved in real estate and construction kickback schemes, extortion, gambling, the sex industry, gunrunning and drug trafficking.

The yakuza also have had a long-standing political alliance with right-wing nationalists in Japan, although authorities did not indicate that Tuesday's attack was politically motivated.

Organized crime groups are behind most shootings in Japan, with two-thirds of the country's 53 known shootings last year being gang-related, according to the National Police Agency. Police estimate there are about 84,500 gangsters across Japan.

Attacks on politicians in post-war Japan are extremely rare.

In 1960, Socialist leader Inejiro Asanuma was killed in an attack by a sword-wielding 17-year-old that riveted the nation.

In 2002, a ruling party politician was fatally stabbed in a dispute over political funds. In the 1990s, a Liberal Democrat lawmaker was killed at his home by his daughter and an opposition lawmaker was stabbed to death by a mental patient.

Last year, a right-wing extremist burned down the house of ruling party lawmaker Koichi Kato after the politician criticized then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's pilgrimage to a controversial Tokyo war shrine. No one was home at the time

GRUß

[Califax]

Immerhin hat er fast vier Jahre gebraucht, um eine funktionierende Waffe zu besorgen.

[Chleche]

Erklär jetzt mal einem Gutmenschen, wie das geht, trotz totaler Entwaffnung. :x

[Califax]

Ganz einfach -

du nimmst einen Eisenklotz und eine Feile und feilst vom Klotz alles runter, was nicht wie eine Pistole aussieht.

Aber vielleicht was es ja eine Weichluftwaffe, die sind in Japan (noch) erlaubt - und das Opfer war extrem dünnhäutig?

[Ballerkopp]

War übrigens der Bürgermeister von Nagasaki.

[martinr]

Mich wuerde jetzt mal interresieren wieviele Politiker seit dem WK II bei uns bzw. auch in anderen Laendern (z.B. Schweden, Norwegen, Tschechien, Frankreich, Italien, Spanien, USA, ....) umgebracht wurden.

Ich hab grad mal ein bisschen gesucht aber nichts gefunden.

[alter Herr]

Bei Schweden fallen mir auf Anhieb zwei:

Olof Palme, am 28.02.1986 auf offener Strasse erschossen

Anna Lindh, am 10.09.2003 in einem Kaufhaus erstochen

[Sgt. Hartman]

Im (fast) völlig entwaffneten Japan hat ein Gangsterboss dem [highlight=red:e15cd0491e]Bürgermeister von Hiroshima [/highlight:e15cd0491e]erschossen, weil er 2003 mit seiner Karre in ein Schlagloch fuhr und diese dabei beschädigte. Die Versicherungsgesellschaft und die Stadt weigerten sich, ihm dafür eine Entschädigung zu zahlen. Das war für den Herrn Mafiosi anscheinend Grung genug, Bürgermeister Ito in den Rücken zu schießen.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070417/ap_on_re_as/japan_mayor_shooting

Report: Japanese mayor killed by mobster By HIROKO TABUCHI, Associated Press Writer

Tue Apr 17, 7:35 PM ET

TOKYO - The [highlight=red:e15cd0491e]mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki [/highlight:e15cd0491e]was shot to death in a brazen attack Tuesday by an organized crime chief apparently enraged that the city refused to compensate him after his car was damaged at a public works construction site, news agencies reported.

übersetzt man Nagasaki aus dem englischen mit Hiroshima?????

dug und wech

[Hollowpoint]

Irgend so ne bombige Stadt halt!

ERBSENZÄHLER!!! :mrgreen:

GRUß

[Sgt. Hartman]

Soviel zum Erbsenzählen

[Guest Attila]

Mich wuerde jetzt mal interresieren wieviele Politiker seit dem WK II bei uns bzw. auch in anderen Laendern (z.B. Schweden, Norwegen, Tschechien, Frankreich, Italien, Spanien, USA, ....) umgebracht wurden.

Ich hab grad mal ein bisschen gesucht aber nichts gefunden.

Rabin, Kennedy JF und Robert, Martin Luther King ( ok kein Politiker.. oder doch ?) sowie mehrere fehlgeschlagene Mordversuche:

Schäuble, Lafontaine...

[bopper]

Gefährlich dürften Politiker auf Korsika, im Baskenland, auf Sizilien und in Nordirland leben/gelebt haben. Da kommen doch immer wieder Nachrichten, dass welche von Terroristen ermordet wurden. In England wurde Mountbatten von der IRA in die Luft gesprengt.