Gabbay’s Labor Party and Livni’s Hatnua party have been in an alliance since 2014. “I hit them with an intention to kill,” police spokesman Satoshi Mishima said the man told officers. Japan’s NHK World also said the alleged assailant was driving a rental van registered in Osaka, the western city where two other executions were carried out last month. "There was a clear intention by this man to kill foreigners," said Herbert Reul, interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Bottrop is located. They also said that there was preliminary information the man was mentally ill but that he had no police record.

Source: Washington Post January 01, 2019 22:07 UTC