The United States has opened 2025 with a tragedy when barely three hours had passed since the turn of the year. One allegedly caused by , a former US military officer, caused . The first investigations have revealed more unknowns than certainties about the authorship and motive of an attack that all authorities consider to be a “terrorist act.”
This is what is known and unknown for now about the attack in the US.
The attacker, who was driving a Ford F-150 electric pickup truck white woman with a Texas license plate, entered the street at high speed. Bourbon Streetin the French Quarter of New Orleans, shortly after 03:00 local time, and ran over the gathered crowd to celebrate the beginning of the year on a road that was closed to traffic. After the vehicle collided with a tow truck, the driver He got out and started shooting a gunleading a shootout with several police officers, who managed to kill him. Authorities are investigating used a rifle or other type of long weapon. The Bourbon Street entrance has security bollards that were disabled due to construction, so there were patrols and fences protecting the place.
The FBI identified the person responsible for the massive car accident in the heart of New Orleans during the early hours of this Wednesday, which left at least 10 dead, as Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbara man of 42 years y American nationality. The suspect was born in Beaumont (Texas), according to available public records that match the identity of the suspect identified by police sources linked to the investigation. Jabbar worked as computer scientist and real estate agent and served for about five years in the United States Armyaccording to the same preliminary reports. Texas police records show he was charged decades ago with two misdemeanors: theft and driving without a license.
All authorities have described the attack as “terrorist” attack from the first moment, but the FBI has not yet clarified “the possible associations and affiliations of the subject with terrorist organizations.” The main clue that points towards the terrorist motive is that a ISIS flag (or Islamic State), in addition to two identification documents, armas and a possible explosive device improvised. In addition, the federal agency of explosives and weapons ATF searched a home in New Orleans where a fire broke out and which could have been rented on Airbnb due to the suspicion of the attack.
Uncertainty about who and how the attack was prepared grew when the FBI admitted at a press conference that He does not believe that Jabbar is the only one responsibleand asked for citizen help to get more information. According to Fox News, the vehicle that was used to run over the crowd He would have crossed the border from Mexico to the United States just two days agoalthough he later rectified and said that it was in November and that it was not clear if the perpetrator of the accident was driving it. However, CNN noted that the truck was rented through Turo -an application similar to the Airbnb platform, but for cars- and that its price was 105 dollars a day.
The president of the United States, Joe Bidenoffered his condolences to the victims and stated: “There is no justification for violence of any kind and we will not tolerate any attacks against any of our nation’s communities.” But his next successor in the White House, Donald Trumplaunched the hoax that The perpetrator of the attack was a foreigner before it was confirmed that he had American nationality. “When I said that the criminals who arrive “They are much worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the fake news media, but it turned out to be true,” .
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