Former US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One before departing Harlingen, Texas on January 12, 2021.
Crédit : MANDEL NAN / AFP
The United States has been in turmoil since the announcement of the indictment of Donald Trump, Thursday March 30, for dozens of charges related to the Stormy Daniels case. The former president of the United States, the first to be criminally implicated, is notably accused of having bought the silence of his former mistress, shortly before the presidential campaign of 2016.
While his lawyer confirmed that the businessman could appear in court on Tuesday in New York, the city’s police went “on alert”, reports AFP. The powerful and bloated NYPD municipal police – 36,000 police and 19,000 civilians – on Friday ordered all its agents and officers to deploy in uniform on the public highway the same day, and this for a week, according to police sources quoted by NBC television.
Questioned by Agence France-Presse, an NYPD spokesperson replied in an email that “the officers had been placed on alert and that the service remained ready to respondif necessary, and would ensure everyone the possibility of exercising their rights in a peaceful manner”. And this, despite the absence of “credible threats to New York”, added the spokesperson.
In Manhattan, pro or anti Trump demonstrators number in the dozens, barely. A handful of hostiles have however settled devant la Trump Toweron the mythical 5th Avenue, and deployed an “Arrest Trump” banner.
