After attack in Washington: Charge for murder
After Deadly attack on two employees of the Israeli embassy In Washington the alleged perpetrator was charged with murder. The crime is also examined as a hate crime and as a possible act of terrorism, which is why further charges could be added, said the incumbent public prosecutor for the US capital, Jeanine Pirro. « I expect that more charges will follow. »
The US prosecutor for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro (VLNR), and Attorney General Pamela Bondi answer questions, while high officials from the District of Columbia hold a press conference after two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington were killed in front of the Capital Jewish Museum. Photo: Andrew Leyden/Zuma Press Wire/DP
The public prosecutor accuses the alleged perpetrator of Elias R. for the killing of German-Israelis Yaron Lischinsky Murder of a foreign representative. In addition, because of the fatal shots on Lischinsky and his partner Sarah Milgrim Murder, he is accused of first degree in two cases. He also has to answer for violations of weapons laws.
The result could be the result
Pirro said the investigation was still at the beginning, but it was crimes that could be punished in the event of a conviction with the death penalty. The judge set a hearing in this case for June 18.
After his arrest, the alleged perpetrator chanted a propalestinian slogan (« Free, Free Palestine »). According to the authorities, he came from Chicago and only came to Washington on the day before the crime.
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The fatal attack had triggered great horror. The young man and the young woman – a few shortly before the engagement – were shot after an event in the Jewish Museum in the US capital.
