In the US thesupport for the liberation of the young man accused of , CEO of United Healthcare, has become already in everything a movement. Citizens demonstrate and demand their freedom from an alleged crime that many understand as an act of punishment against large medical insurers in a country where people can end up bankrupt to pay for their treatment.
This Friday it emerged that a man has tried to free him from the Brooklyn jail where he is being held. A 36-year-old native of Minnesota, he is Mark Anderson, a New York pizzeria worker who has appeared at the Metropolitan Detention Center claiming he was an FBI agent who came to take a prisoner.
Anderson He claimed that he had documentation signed by a federal judge for his release of a prisoner. According to Reutersthis was Luigi Mangione, so they asked him to identify himself. Logically, it went wrong and the man pretending to be a federal agent ended up arrested on charges.
The detainee warned that he was armed… with a fork and a wheel to cut pizza
When prison officials asked for his credentials, Anderson showed them his Minnesota driver’s license. In that situation, they He informed the guards that he was armed -a common issue in the US during an arrest-, but when they searched the backpack he was carrying, inside They only found a barbecue fork and a wheel to cut pizza slices.
He did not stay there and before being arrested He threw the alleged documents at them with which he intended to simulate that a judge had signed the release of Luigi Mangione. According to the judicial documents to which the aforementioned information agency has had access, these papers They were actually claims against the Department of Justice of the United States.
It should be remembered that the , despite the fact that her legal defense tries to bring her down by citing a series of irregularities during her detention. Specifically, the short time in which he was read his rights or the search of the backpack where a homemade gun made by 3D printingand muffler and written with criticism of the American healthcare system.
It is also worth remembering that Mangione was eating there, but it is now the pizzeria worker who has taken the opposite path, trying to free him.
