– The attack was carried out early on January 1, against the crowd gathered to celebrate the transition to the new year. The latest report shows 15 dead and 35 injured. The events took place in the French Quarter of the New Orleansin Louisiana.
– The perpetrator of the attack, killed in an exchange of gunfire with police, was identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an “American national” and former army veteranaged 42 and originally from Texas.
– In the vehicle used in the attack, investigators found a flag of theIslamic Stateand homemade explosives. Joe Biden also added that the suspect had “published videos on social networks indicating that he was inspired by ISIS”.
– Of the explosives were also found in an AirBnB accommodation rented “for this purpose”, specified the attorney general of Louisiana. Investigators are looking for potential accomplicesincluding three men and a woman seen on video surveillance “placing explosives as part of the deadly car bomb attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans,” said the prosecutor.
– Furthermore, a vehicle Tesla Cybertruck exploded on January 1 in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, killing one occupant of the car. American authorities are looking into whether the attack in New Orleans and this explosion in Las Vegas are linked, the American president said, even if nothing corroborated it “so far”, he added.
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