Luigi Mangione He went from anonymity to the public after his macabre and intelligent plan to kill with a weapon with silencer to the entrepreneur Brian Thompson, An outstanding CEO of the insurer UnitedHealthcare.
The 26 -year -old, comes from a wealthy family from Baltimore (Maryland) and Italian offspring; besides, He stood out at the University for his impeccable qualifications. He graduated in 2016 of the prestigious Gilman School, an institution for men recognized as one of Baltimore’s most exclusive private schools. He had the best academic performance in his class.
In context: they captured the murder of Brian Thompson in New York, USA.
The pump in Tiktok, Instagram and Facebook had exploded … the “handsome” Mangione began a revolution against US insurers. It is so much that even the company UnitedHealthcare managed to lose some US$45.000 Millions of market value. This, in the midst of “An avalanche of negative feelings about the insurance sector”, according to described CNN.
His arrest occurred five days after the crime When he was identified by an employee of McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, who immediately called the authorities to inform about his whereabouts. The worker wanted the juicy reward of up to $ 60,000 offered by the New York Police Department and the FBI.
At the time of his arrest, Mangione carried several false identifications – one of them was the one he used to register in the hostel in which he stayed in New York – and also, also, He carried a weapon similar to that used in the murder of Thompson. Then he was taken by the Local Police to a Pennsylvania court and accompanied by New York detectives, where he was prosecuted. In an interrogation, earlier, the researchers had accused him of possession of false identifications and a weapon.
While he was transferred with the authorities, the data scientist and video game developer appeared handcuffed by feet and hands and with a bulletproof vest before the Superior Court of Manhattan. At that time he had strong police protection in a view in which the defense lawyers asked “A fair judgment because he is treated publicly as guilty.”
-Four months later, this Friday, April 25, the defendant appeared again before the Federal Court of the South District of Manhattan, dressed in beige uniform of the presidency, where Judge Margaret Garnett read him the four positions of which he was accused, among them, among them, Murder with a firearm, possession of weapons and repeated harassment.
Mangione declared “not guilty.” Previously, he had declared not guilty of 11 accusations in the Criminal Court of Manhattan, including the murder as an act “terrorist”. At the beginning of April, the United States Secretary of Justice, Pamela Bondi, announced that she will seek the death penalty for this young man who turns 27 years old on May 6, noting that “The murder was an act of political violence,” “premeditated cold blood.”
A long line of people formed before the courts of the court to enter the courtroom where the hearing was held. One of the activists who work for their cause, Lindsay Floyd, asked that Mangione has “a fair and biased trial.”
“There are many people who do not believe they are guilty, and another who believes that, even if it is guilty, it is a necessary evil, because it highlights injustices (…) in the health insurance industry,” he told AFP.
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The fund that their lawyers have created for their defense has already been raised $ 950,000, Most small donations of thousands of people asking for their liberation and a fair judgment.
“Politizing your case and the death penalty will only get more support for your freedom,” It can be read in one of the messages. What most “impressed” the history professor Elliot Gorn, from the Loyola University of Chicago, after the murder of Thompson, was “the deep feeling of grievance that many Americans had suddenly.”
“We had just had a political campaign for months, and the issue barely arose, but suddenly the gates opened, and everyone seemed to have a history of horror of the medical care that had been denied,” he tells the AFP.
