MADRID 2 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has assured that “there is no link” between the intentional car accident in New Orleans in which at least 14 people have died and the explosion of a Tesla vehicle in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Vegas.
“We are following all possible leads and we are not ruling anything out. However, at this time, there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas,” said the deputy deputy director of the agency’s counterterrorism division. , Christopher Raia.
The official held a press conference this Thursday from New Orleans in which, accompanied by the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, and other authorities, he assured that the attack was “an act of terrorism” alone by a US citizen. to whom interest in the Islamic State is attributed.
“To protect our citizens in the United States from evil, we must crush it,” said Governor Landry, who has defended a forceful stance against “evil.”
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, had assured hours ago that security forces were investigating whether there were links between both events. For his part, the president-elect, Donald Trump, has lamented that both episodes make the United States “the laughingstock of the world.”