Teverything opposes them. In New Orleans, the attacker who drove his vehicle into the crowd had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State; in Las Vegas, the owner of the Tesla Cybertruck which exploded in front of the Trump Hotel, Wednesday 1is January, was a support… of Donald Trump. The identity and feats of arms of the man who died in the explosion are gradually becoming known.
Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old American, was in fact identified by his wife thanks to two of his tattoos, his body being “charred and not recognizable”. He had rented the vehicle in Denver on December 28, 1,000 miles away. His uncle, Dean Livelsberger, spoke about him in the columns of the British daily The Independent. He described him as “a Rambo guy, for lack of a better word.” Indeed, like the hero played by Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Livelsberger was a Green Beret, an entity of the special forces of the American army, specializing in particular in commando missions.
ALSO READ Terrorist attack in New Orleans: what we know about the profile of the attackerStill according to his uncle, the individual was more of a Republican leaning: “He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American. “That’s one of the reasons he served in the special forces for so many years,” he explains. According to the Daily Beast, a data leak reveals that he had an account at The Post Millenial, a Canadian website that describes itself as “one of the largest conservative news outlets in the world.”
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Matthew Livelsberger had served in the United States Army for nineteen years. While stationed in Germany, he had obtained leave of absence. His LinkedIn profile lists his last job: head of autonomous and remote systems in the military. He was assigned to manage the operations, maintenance and integration of drones in the army.
His profile raises questions: he had extensive knowledge of explosives and the intentionality of the gesture is only a small part of everything. According to his uncle, who calls him a “super soldier”, he was well capable of creating a more sophisticated explosive Cybertruck than the one that exploded on Wednesday, and which injured seven people at that time. According to Kenny Cooper, assistant special agent in charge of the San Francisco division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, “the level of sophistication is not what one would expect of an individual with this type of military experience.
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If he was a supporter of Donald Trump, why blow himself up in front of his hotel, at the wheel of the flagship vehicle of Tesla, the brand of Elon Musk, support of the Republican leader and working to “restore its effectiveness” to the America? The Las Vegas sheriff also supports the theory of suicide: a gunshot wound to the head was reportedly noted on the body of Matthew Livelsberger. He therefore killed himself before the explosion.
ALSO READ Luigi Mangione, alleged killer of insurance boss, pleads not guiltyThe man’s motivations are, at this time, very far from clear. There appears to be no established connection between this explosion and the New Orleans attack, according to the deputy director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, Christopher Raia (although both men served at the same base ). If the allegiances of one are known and therefore tip the scales towards a terrorist act, Matthew Livelsberger still leaves investigators in complete misunderstanding.
