A 38-year-old man, who admitted that he wanted to attack the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, was charged with attempted murder and terrorism after the fire at the “Molotov cocktails” who damaged the home of this heavyweight of the Democratic Party during the weekend.
The name of Josh Shapiro regularly returns to the United States as a potential pretending to the White House election in 2028, on the democrat side.
The 51-year-old governor was one of the possible candidates for the vice-president of the United States of Kamala Harris, who had finally chosen the governor of Minnesota Tim Walz as a running mate.
The elected official was with his family inside his official Harrisburg residence, capital of Pennsylvania, where he celebrated the Jewish party of Passah on Saturday, when everyone was awakened and evacuated by his security service because of the fire.
Even if the fire could be turned off, he caused significant damage to part of the residence
the authorities said in a statement.
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The residence of the Governor of Pennsylvania suffered heavy damage during the criminal fire.
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During a press conference, police said they had arrested a 38 -year -old man, Cody Balmer, suspected of having broken into the house, equipped with incendiary craft vehicles.
According to court documents, the suspect gave himself up to the police. He said he was experiencing clothes
with regard to Shapiro and told investigators that he would have struck with his hammer
If he had met him, according to the police complaint.
Still according to this complaint, the man managed to enter the premises of the residence and broke windows to throw away ses cocktails Molotov
inside. Police say they have found bottles of beer containing gasoline in the residence.
Cody Balmer is prosecuted for eight charges, including attempted murder, criminal fire and terrorism.
On the social network X, Josh Shapiro reported having been awakened by Blows on the door
Struck by the police, before being evacuated with his relatives.
Thank God, there are no wounded and the fire was extinguished
he wrote.
From one edge or the other, it must cease
This kind of violence becomes far too common in our society and no matter what it comes from one side or another, it must cease
added to the press the Democrat, who had defeated in 2022 a candidate close to the far right and supported by Donald Trump.
Republican vice-president JD Vance, denouncing a Really repugnant violence
asked that the manager be Quickly translated into justice
.
Questioned by journalists on the Air Force presidential plane, Donald Trump simply replied that he had heard of the incident.
Violence against elected officials or political leaders has become a recurring problem in the United States, which culminated last July with the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in the midst of a rally during his presidential campaign, in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The author of the shots, who had only touched the republican candidate, had been killed on the spot by the police.
Many experts agree that acts of violence increased with the arrival of Donald Trump in power in January 2017 – whether or not, responsible.
According to Capitol police, responsible for protecting elected officials from Congress, threats against them have more than doubled since that date.
In 2022, the husband of the elected democrat Nancy Pelosi had also been attacked by a man with a hammer and who actually sought the American leader.
