Joe Biden indicated Tuesday that “barely hours before the deadly car-ramming attack” in New Orleans, the suspect had “published videos on social networks indicating that he was inspired by the Islamic State “.
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These videos also testify to 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.
Joe Biden also stressed that law enforcement is investigating whether the attack in New Orleans and the explosion in Las Vegas are linked.
-Recall that a former American soldier, who had an Islamic State group flag in his vehicle, rushed his car into a crowd celebrating the New Year on Wednesday in the French tourist district of New Orleans, in the southern United States. United, leaving at least 15 dead and around thirty injured.
The 42-year-old man, who died, was “determined” to cause “carnage”, according to the local police, while the FBI considers this attack, Wednesday at dawn, as a probable “terrorist act”.
The alleged perpetrator of this vehicle-ramming attack was Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an “American national from Texas” and former army soldier, federal police revealed. He was in the army from 2007 to 2015, including a deployment to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010, finishing as a staff sergeant, according to the Department of Defense.
This comes less than three weeks before the transfer of power between Democratic President Joe Biden and his elected Republican successor Donald Trump, in an electric political climate.
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