Man Arrested in Florida for Planned Attack on New York Stock Exchange

The American federal police (FBI) arrested on Wednesday November 20 a homeless American who planned to plant a homemade bomb this week in front of the stock market from New York pouring “reset state”according to a complaint filed in Florida.

This arrest comes after a ten-month investigation of Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, who was born in the United States in 1994, by undercover FBI agents to whom he confided his plans. He also asked them to find the explosives needed to build a homemade bomb. According to the complaint filed on Wednesday, he explained to the agents, who were posing as a militia member, that he had tried to join him. “anti-government militia” and also after considering joining the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq in 2015 after being contacted by people claiming to be affiliated with the jihadist group, before they gave them up.

His choice for the project was to attack the New York Stock Exchange, because he thought so “Many people will support” his opinion. “They would say to each other “What this man is doing makes sense”because these people are stealing from us.”said according to the complaint. A search of a storage unit led to the discovery of plans and electronic equipment for building a homemade bomb. His internet history shows research on building such a device since 2017 and a search of his messages and emails found exchanges on this topic.