US authorities are investigating whether the vehicle-ramming attack in New Orleans and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas are linked, Joe Biden said on Wednesday, saying there was no evidence to support it. “so far”.
The American president said that the authorities were investigating this explosion of a Tesla electric vehicle in particular to find out “if there was any possible connection to the attack in New Orleans”, he said in a short speech from the Camp David residence, near Washington. “So far there is nothing to report on this,” he clarified.
Joe Biden indicated Tuesday that “just a few hours before the attack” car-ramming murderer in New Orleans, the suspect had “posted videos on social media indicating that he was inspired by ISIS.”
These videos also demonstrate a “desire to kill”added the American president, who specified that he had this information from the FBI, the federal police, in a short speech from the Camp David residence, near Washington.
Before Mr. Biden's statement, Elon Musk had claimed on X that he could confirm that the explosion in Las Vegas had “was caused by large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the back of the rented Cybertruck and is not linked to the vehicle itself”without supporting his point.
"We've never seen anything like this," had initially declared the boss of Tesla, an ally of Donald Trump, also responsible for an extra-governmental mission of deregulation and reduction of public spending in the future government of the elected president. This explosion came a few hours after a former American soldier, identified by the FBI as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, is suspected of having driven into the crowd at the wheel of his vehicle in New Orleans. This attack, treated as a “act of terrorism” according to the federal police, left at least 15 dead and around thirty injured.
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Investigators said they found an Islamic State group flag in the vehicle.
Questioned by the press, Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said there was no “no indication” allowing a link to be established between the explosion in front of the Trump hotel and the Islamic State (IS) group.
'There is no visible IS flag like there was in New Orleans'said the police officer.
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