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Luigi Mangione, here on December 10, before a presentation at an extradition hearing to soon transfer him from Pennsylvania to New York.
UNITED STATES – A past to examine to try to understand. Arrested Monday, December 9 after five days of tracking, the main suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson continues to reveal new elements of explanation regarding his action. Indirectly.
Two days after the arrest of Luigi Mangione more than 500 km from New York, the CNBC channel revealed this Tuesday, December 10, part of the written content found on this young 26-year-old American when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.
Now being prosecuted for murder, but also illegal possession of a firearm and forged documents, according to court documents posted online by the New York State justice system, the young man had notably written: frankly, these parasites deserved it” in these famous notes. “I apologize for any conflict or trauma, but it had to be done”is also registered, according to several police sources.
“I didn’t work with anyone »
These three-page writings, against the first private health insurance in the United States and more broadly against the American protection system, can be considered as an admission of his actions. In any case, this is what the arrest warrant against Luigi Mangione suggests, a New York State court referring to these notes as “written confession about the crime” committed against Brian Thompson.
In other extracts from these notes, Luigi Mangione claims to want to spare federal agents a lengthy investigation by indicating: “ I make it clear that I was not working with anyone. » Presented as a manifesto, this document above all reveals the extent of Luigi Mangione's anger against his country's health system. He who suffers from back problems.
In his criticisms, the young man writes that the American health system is “the most expensive in the world, while the life expectancy of an American is ranked 42nd in the world”explained investigator Joseph Kenny of the New York police on ABC. Anger against a lucrative system accused of enriching itself on the backs of patients which is further illustrated when it denounces companies which “continue to abuse our country for immense profit, simply because the Americans let them”.
A back pain that questions
Gradually, Luigi Mangione's profile has been refined since his arrest. However, it is still difficult to understand how this former top of the class, passionate about computers and video games, changed.
Political motivations, health problems… Some of his former relatives, cited by AFP, describe a man far from all these considerations when they were around him. Aaron Cranston, a childhood friend, speaks, for example, of a boy who was not particularly political. As for RJ Martin, his former roommate in Hawaii in 2022, he remembers discussions for “improve the world”. But without ever detecting any particular anger.
His back problems were well known. After a surf lesson, Luigi Mangione “ had been in bed for about a week”RJ Martin told CNN, assuring that his friend had recently undergone surgery. The police are also wondering about a medical X-ray photo displayed on the suspect's profile on the social network X.
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