After a first hearing on the charges, linked to his arrest in Pennsylvania, of illegal possession of a weapon and false documents, the local justice must immediately examine his transfer procedure to New York, where the murder was committed in the middle of street at dawn on December 4, in the Midtown business district.
Charged with terrorism
On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that Luigi Mangione was indicted by a grand jury on terrorism-related murder charges in the shooting death of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson , 50 years old, to provoke “terror”.
When he was arrested, Luigi Mangione was carrying a three-page handwritten text targeting the health insurance sector. The assassination provoked numerous condemnations but also a deluge of hateful comments on social networks against American health insurance programs, illustrating deep anger towards a system accused of prioritizing profit over benefits. care.
From December 4, the images captured by video surveillance of the killer coldly holding his gun and shooting the boss went around the world. The suspect managed to flee and leave New York. Five days later, Luigi Mangione was recognized and arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, a small rural town about 300 miles west of New York, Pennsylvania.
