The perpetrator of the hit-and-run accident in New Orleans acted alone
This comes in the office’s retraction of its position that it announced yesterday, Wednesday, that it may have worked with others to carry out the fatal car-ramming accident, which is being investigated as a terrorist act inspired by the Islamic State.
US citizen from Texas
The FBI also revealed that the driver, Shams al-Din Jabbar, a US citizen from Texas, had posted five videos on his Facebook account in the hours before the hit-and-run accident, in which he declared his allegiance to ISIS and said he had joined the armed group last summer. .
Christopher Raya, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, said this incident “was a deliberate and evil act of terrorism.”
More than 10 people killed
Yesterday, Wednesday, officials announced that they were searching for other possible suspects in the car-ramming incident that occurred when Jabbar crossed a police barrier and ran into a crowd of revelers, killing more than 10 people, including an 18-year-old woman who was hoping to become… nurse.
But Raya said the current assessment is that he acted alone, without any participants in the incident.
The authorities found a black ISIS flag in the truck, and US President Joe Biden said that the FBI informed him that Jabbar, an American citizen from Texas, had posted videos on social media hours before the massacre, which showed that he was motivated by the armed organization. He expressed his desire to kill.
Investigators found weapons and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device in the truck, along with explosive devices elsewhere in the French Quarter.
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