Images worthy of an American movie. Luigi Mangione, suspected of having murdered a head of American health security, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was transferred under strong police escort this Thursday, December 19, to New York, where he appeared for the first time before federal justice.
The transfer was carefully organized by US authorities and news channels showed the 26-year-old, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, being slowly escorted by helmeted law enforcement officers with machine guns on their shoulders, after landing in New York aboard a helicopter .
The city’s mayor, Eric Adams, who heads the NYPD, accompanied the procession.
On social networks, many users made an iconographic comparison between the images of Luigi Mangione’s companion this Thursday and that of Superman in the film. man of steel Directed by Zack Synder.
In recent days, Luigi Mangione has become a true “hero” for thousands of young Americans. The murderer of the head of UnitedHealthcare received numerous messages of support and sympathy and enjoys a true aura on social networks, despite his crime.
Lots of support
On Thursday, some protesters marched to the courthouse where he appeared, some wearing a T-shirt with his image or a sign that said: “Health insurance practices terrify the population.”
The praise received was condemned by the authorities and the New York police expressed in an internal memo their concern that Luigi Mangione was becoming a “role example.”
The engineering graduate, a former brilliant student from a wealthy Baltimore family, was presented for the first time this Thursday before federal Judge Katharine Parker, who read him the charges, including using a weapon to kill in early December in the heart of Brian Thompson, CEO of the nation’s first private health insurer, UnitedHealthcare.
Acts punishable by death or life imprisonment, stated the US Department of Justice in a press release.
Source: BFM TV
