If the terrorist motivation seems clear in the first case, things remained much less obvious in the second, Thursday evening. Neither the identity nor the possible claims of the person who detonated the cyber truck have been confirmed by the FBI. According to the Bloomberg agency, however, it could be Matthew Livelsberger, 37, originally from Colorado Springs, also a soldier and currently serving in Germany, but on leave in the United States at the time of the explosion.
Always quick to express himself and defend his interests (read our Editorial), Elon Musk was content to indicate, without being able to confirm it, that the explosion of the Tesla vehicle had been “caused by large fires of fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the back of the rented Cybertruck and [n’était] not linked to the vehicle itself.
New Orleans attack: Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a discreet man, passionate about Islam and in debt
Shooting in New York
Thursday, in the early hours of the morning, a third attack occurred in New York. For reasons that remained unknown at the time of closing this edition, three or four men opened fire and fired around thirty projectiles near a nightclub located in the borough of Queens. Six women and four men aged 16 to 20 were affected, without any of these victims being in danger of death.
“Just a few hours” before the attack in New Orleans, the suspect had published several disturbing videos
According to the New York Times, the shooting took place outside a “private event venue”, located in the heart of the Jamaican neighborhood. Around 90 people were present in the room during the incident, and around fifteen others in the line outside the building. Still according to the American daily, fortunately no shot would have resonated inside the club.
In less than 48 hours, three violent events, with likely different motives, shook the United States in three diametrically opposed places. All this, three weeks before the transfer of power between Democratic President Joe Biden and his elected Republican successor Donald Trump, in an electric political climate.
