Luigi Mangione has been indicted for the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthCare, the largest private health insurer in the United States. Investigators found a manifesto in which the 26-year-old suspect criticizes the country’s health system.
Sportsman, graduate of a prestigious university and from a wealthy family: on paper, Luigi Mangione was promised a bright future but elements reveal the anger against the health system of this young man, suffering from a back, suspected of murder of an American boss. Investigators notably found a manifesto where Mangione, 26, criticizes the health system “the most expensive in the world, while the life expectancy of an American is ranked 42nd in the world“said Joseph Kenny, of the New York police, on the ABC channel.
Arrested Monday, the suspect was charged with the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthCare, the largest private health insurer in the United States.. This news surprised some acquaintances of the tall, dark young man with curly hair, who highlighted his advantageous musculature on his alleged social networks. It is “a real shock“, told AFP a former friend of Luigi Mangione in a posh private high school in Baltimore, referring to a boy then rather “calm” et “intelligent“, came first in his class in 2016. “It’s unimaginable“, tells CNN RJ Martin, who lived in Hawaii with the suspect in 2022, remembering a “caring person“. “Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest. We pray for Brian Thompson’s family“, writes the Mangione family in a press release sent to the media by the suspect’s cousin, Nino Mangione, elected to the local parliament of Maryland (east).
“Power of technology”
The Mangione family, of Italian origin, is well known in the Baltimore area, according to the news site The Baltimore Banner. The patriarch, Nick Mangione, had made his fortune in real estate, owning “country clubs“, retirement homes and radio stations. Luigi Mangione”was a strong believer in the power of technology to change the world“explains to the New York Times Aaron Cranston, one of his friends at school, describing a computer enthusiast. In 2018, the Maryland native co-chaired a group of students to develop video games at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the best in the country, from which he graduated in 2020, in engineering. “In high school I started playing a lot of indie video games and things like that, but I wanted to make my own game so I learned to code“, said Luigi Mangione, quoted in an article – since deleted – from the university.
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Back problems
What motivations pushed this young man, obviously well integrated, to, as he is suspected, coldly shoot down the boss of UnitedHealthcare in the middle of the street in New York? Aaron Cranston, the childhood friend, speaks of a boy who was not particularly political. RJ Martin, former roommate in Hawaii, recalls discussions to “improve the world“, evoking various issues such as the health system. But he had not detected any particular anger in Luigi Mangione. The police, for their part, are wondering in particular about a medical radio photo displayed on the suspect’s profile on the social network x. Back problems mentioned by RJ Martin: after a surf lesson, Luigi Mangione “had been in bed for about a week“he told CNN, assuring that his friend had recently had surgery.
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A manifesto found
The manifesto found by investigators and cited by American media seems to attest to possible political motivations : the young man claims to have acted alone and specifically criticizes UnitedHealthcare, a health insurance giant. He continues by denouncing companies thatcontinue to abuse our country for immense profit, simply because the Americans let them“. “Honestly these parasites deserved it“, he continues. In January, a profile in the name of Luigi Mangione commented on the internet on the writings of Ted Kaczynski, alias “Unabomber”, who had terrified the United States with parcel bomb attacks between 1978 and 1995. “It’s easy to write quickly and without thinking that it’s a madman’s manifesto, to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable issues it raises“, estimates Luigi Mangione. “But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society have proven to be“.
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The death of Brian Thompson caused a strong stir, nevertheless sparking hateful comments on social networks, a symbol of anger against the lucrative system accused of enriching itself on the backs of patients.
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(upday with AFP)
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