The former President of the Republic, in power during the same period as Shinzo Abe, reacted to the assassination of the former Prime Minister.
Former President of the Republic François Hollande, in power at the same time as Shinzo Abe, said on Friday “very affected by the conditions of the death” of the assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister.
Shinzo Abe died Friday in hospital as a result of the bullet attack he suffered in the middle of an election rally in Nara (west), arousing great emotion in Japan and abroad.
“It’s a statesman who disappears and it’s a loss not just for Japan but also for the entire international community,” François Hollande told AFP, “because he had known , not only to defend the interests of his country but to carry, in particular on the questions of economic regulation and collective security, ambitions which could be common to us”.
An assassination “whose atrocity is a new symptom of violence within our societies”
“I am very affected by the conditions of his death, that is to say an assassination whose motivations we do not yet know today, but whose atrocity is a new symptom of violence within our societies. “, insisted the former President of the Republic.
François Hollande underlines that Shinzo Abe “had close ties with France where he had come several times. I had received him with great friendship”. “He was a demanding partner,” he recalls. “He was useful in convincing people that growth should prevail over austerity. And he was part of this movement.”
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