US Minister of Justice Pam Bondi ordered to Federal Prosecutors to They asked the death penalty For 26-year-old Luigi Mangione who is accused of murder CEO of the largest US health insurance company UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson.
According to the AFP report, TASR reports this. Fifty -year -old Thompson shot the attacker At the beginning of December in Manhattan, New York, when he walked to the hotel where a conference of investors of the insurance company took place.
Mangione was arrested five days later – December 9 – Based on a tip from the McDonald’s branch employees, a hundred kilometers away from Altoon, Pennsylvania, where he was found in a medical guise and a winter cap. He had an open laptop and presented a false identity card to the police. During a personal search, the police found a weapon made using a 3D printer used to murder Thompson.
“The murder of Brian Thompson – an innocent man and the father of two young children – was committed by Luigi Mangione, was assaulted and cold -blooded and shocked America,” Bondi said. In this context, he also speaks of “the act of political violence that could represent serious risk of death for other persons“.
Mangione is charged with the murder of Thompson at both state and federal levels. In the first case, he declared in December in a Court of New York that he was innocent. If he is convicted, he is punishable by a life imprisonment without the possibility of conditional release. At the federal level, he faces the death penalty.
The murder of Thompson, according to AFP, brought to the surface deep dissatisfaction of the public from the lucrative commercial healthcare system in the US. Many social network users have portrayed Mangionethat, according to investigators, was motivated by anger to US health insurance companies, as a hero.
Such rhetoric was described by the then American Minister for Internal Security Alejandro Mayorkas as extremely worrying.“It shows what really bubbles in this country. And, unfortunately, we see it in the manifestations of violence and domestic violent extremism that is here,” Mayorkas said.
