Attack in New York on October 31, 2017

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The murder vehicle at the site of the attack
Location of the attack on the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan , New York, one hour later

The attack in New York on October 31, 2017 was carried out with a pickup truck at 3:30 p.m. local time (GMT-4) . A man with a rented Ford F-250 pickup ran over numerous people on the bike path in Hudson River Park on the West Side Highway of New York City . Eight people (five Argentinians, two Americans and one Belgian) died. One day after the attack, nine people were injured in the hospital; four of them were seriously injured.

The collision with a school bus brought the pick-up to a halt, whereupon the terrorist got out with a paintball marker modeled on real weapons and an air rifle . An NYPD officer shot him and hit him in the stomach. He was taken to a hospital and operated on and survived. A handwritten letter of confession was found in the pick-up. Handwritten documents expressing sympathy for the terrorist organization Islamic State were found at the scene . The assassin told investigators that he was inspired to the act by IS videos and that the planning had already started a year in advance.

The annual Halloween parade with around two million visitors then took place as planned under strong police protection.

The man who was shot and seriously suspected is a 29-year-old named Sayfullo Saipov. He is Uzbek and came to the USA in 2010 on a Diversity Immigrant Visa . Saipov is married; he has two daughters and a son born in 2017. At the hospital, he said he felt fine after the crime and expressed a desire to hang an IS flag in the hospital room.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called the act a "cowardly act of terror". New Yorkers wouldn't be intimidated.

See also

Web links

Commons : Attack in New York on October 31, 2017  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Small truck runs over several people in New York - eight dead. In: sueddeutsche.de November 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ abc7chicago.com
  3. ↑ a b c Driver in Manhattan Attack Had Been Planning for Weeks, Police Say. In: nytimes.com
  4. ^ NYPD officer who shot, apprehended truck suspect identified. In: CNN.com
  5. ↑ Benjamin Weiser: US Seeks Death Penalty in Terror Attack on Manhattan Bike Path . In: The New York Times . September 28, 2018, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed July 31, 2019]).
  6. ↑ a b Manhattan: Pick-up driver kills eight people - Mayor speaks of terror. In: spiegel.de October 31, 2017.
  7. ^ Five Argentines among 8 dead in New York City terror attack. In: washingtonpost.com
  8. ^ CNN, New York attack: Suspect charged with terrorism offenses , November 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ "A particularly cowardly act of terrorism". In: sueddeutsche.de , November 1, 2017
  10. ↑ Truck Mows Down Pedestrians and Cyclists in TriBeCa, Killing 8 In: WNYC. Retrieved November 1, 2017 .
  11. ↑ The perpetrator is said to come from Uzbekistan. In: faz.net , November 1, 2017
  12. ↑ The attacker wants to hang the IS flag in the sickroom , FAZ, November 2, 2017

Coordinates: 40 ° 43 ′ 1.7 ″  N , 74 ° 0 ′ 45.9 ″  W.