The alleged killer of Brian Thompson, American boss of the American health insurance sector, in New York has been indicted for murder “considered an act of terrorism”announced Tuesday, December 17, Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg. “It was an assassination which was supposed to arouse terror”underlined the magistrate during a press conference, regarding the act attributed to Luigi Mangione, 26 years old.
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The prosecutor added that he hoped for the rapid transfer of the suspect, arrested about 500 kilometers from New York last week, to stand trial for the murder of the UnitedHealthCare CEO. If convicted of this charge of murder with a terrorist dimension, which was decided by a grand jury of citizens, Luigi Mangione, 26, faces life in prison without parole, the Manhattan prosecutor said. Luigi Mangione is scheduled to appear again Thursday in a local court in Pennsylvania, where he was arrested last week, a hearing that could speed up that transfer.
Questions persist about the motivations that pushed this engineering graduate, a brilliant former student from a wealthy family, to coldly shoot Mr. Thompson at the foot of a hotel in the heart of Manhattan on December 4. Police said he was in possession of a three-page handwritten text criticizing the health insurance system in the United States. The scene, captured by a video surveillance camera, was seen by millions of people.
The death of Mr. Thompson caused a strong stir, but it was also accompanied by hateful comments on social networks against American health insurance programs, illustrating deep anger in the country towards a lucrative system accused of enriching itself on the backs of patients.
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