In connection with the terrorist attack in New York, the US Federal Police (FBI) reported a rapid success in the search: According to their own statements, they tracked down a man from Uzbekistan from whom they hope to get information about the vehicle attack. The man was found less than an hour after the public search call, said the FBI in New York. It did not want to give any further information.
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The federal police had put the 32-year-old Mukhammadzoir Kadirov out to be wanted because he could have “information about the fatal attack”. Kadirov is from Uzbekistan, where the vehicle bomber Sayfullo Saipov also comes from.
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He is charged with being responsible for the deaths of eight people and for supporting the ISIS Islamist militia. The lawsuit stated that the suspect admitted that he was inspired by ISIS. He intended to kill as many people as possible.
He is also said to have told the FBI that he deliberately chose Halloween as the time of the crime because there were a particularly large number of people on the streets. He also asked permission to hang an IS flag in his hospital room. He feels good and does not regret what he did, the Federal Police continued.
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According to the investigation, the man had knocked over numerous pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path in New York on Tuesday with a pickup truck. Eight people died and at least eleven were injured. When he escaped from the car, police said he was gunned down and arrested.
US President Donald Trump announced that he would have the New York assassin locked up in the controversial Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba. When asked to do so, Trump said to journalists in Washington: “I would certainly consider doing this.”
When he took office, Trump had already spoken out in favor of making greater use of the prison camp, which had been denounced by human and civil rights activists.
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