Jeanne Le Borgne
12/22/2024 at 4:28 p.m.
From his cell in Pennsylvania, where he remained ten days before his transfer to New York, Luigi Mangione, the alleged murderer of Brian Thompson, received 140 messages from the outside. Many of them were letters from admirers.
It's hard not to find this unhealthy. As the two children of Brian Thompson, CEO of health insurer UnitedHealthcare murdered on December 9, prepare to spend their first Christmas without their father, the popularity of Luigi Mangione, his alleged murderer, continues to rise. And this, despite the demonstration of force by the authorities, aiming to show that they will not “tolerate any act of terrorism” and to discourage any “Robin Hood” tempted to continue his “fight” against insurance companies, time of his transfer.
The “New York Post” affirms, in fact, that, from his prison cell in Pennsylvania, where he remained ten days before his transfer to New York, where he is being prosecuted for “act of terrorism”, Luigi Mangione received more of 140 messages. 54 emails and 87 physical letters whose contents the authorities refused to make public, but which, according to our colleagues, largely resemble love letters and messages of support.
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On TikTok, a young woman presenting herself as the “same age” as Luigi Mangione, 26 years old, explains that she offered him the chance to talk during his years of detention and shows a letter in which she wrote to him: “The Internet is really in love of you.” Interviewed by the “New York Post”, she justified her support for the alleged murderer by alleging that, “in her opinion”, “killing someone who himself took the lives of thousands of people is not something of evil.”
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Donations so that he can eat
Lindsy Floyd, 40, who wrote a letter to Luigi Mangione while he was locked up in Pennsylvania, said she plans to continue writing to him “at least once a month” because he “deserves dignity and humanity”. Like them, many young women (girls?) claim to have written to Luigi Mangione and found his gesture “sexy”. Some even went so far as to tattoo the face of the murderer on their bodies. And during his ten days in Pennsylvania, Luigi Mangione received 163 donations intended to buy snacks. As for the prize pool intended to finance his legal costs, the latter quickly exceeded the $100,000 mark.
According to an Emerson College poll, 41 percent of voters aged 18 to 29 think the murder of Brian Thompson was “acceptable” or at least “somewhat acceptable.”
