火薬乾燥目的でアパート契約　山上容疑者、自宅とは別に―安倍元首相銃撃・奈良県警

　安倍晋三元首相が奈良市内で銃撃され死亡した事件で、殺人容疑で送検された無職山上徹也容疑者（４１）が昨年３～９月、自宅とは別にアパートの一室を賃貸契約し、「火薬を乾かすために借りた」と供述していることが２３日、奈良県警への取材で分かった。同容疑者は昨年春ごろから銃の製作を始めたと話しており、県警は手製の銃に使う火薬をアパートで作っていたとみて調べている。
　県警によると、契約していたのは奈良県内のアパートで、賃料は月２万円台だった。同容疑者は昨年１１月～今年２月には月額約１万５０００円でシャッター付きのガレージを借りていた。いずれも火薬を乾燥させるのが目的だったとみられ、同容疑者は場所を変えた理由について「賃料などが高かったため」と説明しているという。（2022/07/23-14:19）

The man suspected of fatally shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said that he had rented an apartment room to dry gunpowder, it was learned Saturday.
   The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, told investigators that he rented a room separate from his residence between March and September last year in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, for about 20,000 yen per month, according to Nara prefectural police.
   Yamagami said that he began making guns around spring last year, and police suspect that he used the apartment room to make gunpowder for his homemade guns. The suspect also rented a garage with shutters in the prefecture for 15,000 yen per month from last November to this February, also for drying gunpowder.
   Yamagami said he decided to dry gunpowder in the garage instead of the apartment room because "the apartment rent was high."
   Abe was shot while delivering an election campaign speech in the city of Nara, the prefecture's capital, on July 8. He was confirmed dead later that day.