In New York, the alleged perpetrator of the attack in the subway arrested

End of the run of the suspect of the shootings in the New York subway. A 62-year-old African-American, accused of having used his weapon numerous times on a train on Tuesday, was arrested in Manhattan by the police at the end of the manhunt. He will be prosecuted for “terrorist attack” announced a federal prosecutor. New York authorities have arrested, Wednesday, April 13, the alleged perpetrator of the attack perpetrated the day before in a subway train in Brooklyn, announced the mayor of the city, Eric Adams. Several shots were then fired at rush hour, injuring 23, including 10 by bullets. The suspect was found in Manhattan, according to the television network NBC, and the city authorities announced that he would be prosecuted for “terrorist attack”. He will be prosecuted under a law that prohibits “terrorist attacks and other violence against (…) public transportation,” announced a federal prosecutor. “He will appear in federal court in Brooklyn and, in the event of conviction, will incur a life sentence,” prosecutor Breon Peace said at a press conference. “We will continue to tighten the trap around him and arrest him,” the Democratic mayor promised in the morning. of New York, Eric Adams, expected at the turn on the theme of the fight against crime, he who had made it a campaign theme to be elected last year. The police had been looking for more than 24 hours for Frank James, an Afro -62-year-old American, accused of having fired numerous times in an N line train, at the “36th street” station, in the south of Brooklyn. On Wednesday, New Yorkers had received on their telephone an “urgent” message asking them to deliver any element useful to the enqs listeners. A $50,000 reward had been put on the table. A suspect known to law enforcement The man had a YouTube page, dubbed “prophetoftruth88” (prophet of truth) removed Wednesday morning for “violating community guidelines” from the site. He posted multiple videos there where we see him launching long tirades, sometimes rambling and vehement, in which he evokes racial issues, insecurity in New York, especially on the subway, and attacks homosexual people, or the new mayor Eric Adams. Known to the police after several arrests, he was arrested thanks to reports. While the hunt for the shooter, described as “dangerous” the day before, continued, millions of New Yorkers resumed the metro, one of the largest networks in the world, to go to work, with some posting selfies on social networks to show that life was getting back to normal. “You don’t get up in the morning thinking that you It’s New York, the city never stops,” Sony Washington, a 35-year-old machinist, told AFP. worrying that the suspect is still out in the wild.”I always pay attention to what surrounds me since September 11 (2001). But there have been more incidents on the docks recently, so I’m paying more attention,” added Laura Swalm, 49, who lives in neighboring New Jersey. (12:30 GMT), at a time when the metro trains are crowded, the individual, who was wearing a gas mask, lit two devices which smoked the car, then shot at the passengers as the train entered station. “We were really lucky it wasn’t much more serious,” NYPD Chief Keechant Sewell said, summing up authorities’ relief. 33 bullets. “All you see is black smoke, and I turned to the right, and I saw this guy with a mask,” testified on CNN one of the victims, Hourari Benkada, from his hospital bed. “The shooting lasted about a minute (…). I have never heard so many shots coming out of a handgun… (…) He probably had extended magazines or another firearm”, added this man, hit in the knee At the scene, investigators recovered a handgun and three magazines.The attack took place as New York has faced a spike in crime since the Covid-19 pandemic, with the number of homicides rising from 319 in 2019 to 488 in 2021, although the annual toll remains well below the more than 2,000 per year recorded in the early 1990s. Shootings have also remained on the rise since the start of the year, from 260 to 296 in the first quarter of 2022, according to police figures, some of which have made an impression, such as the death on Friday of a 17-year-old girl, shot dead outside a high school in the Bronx. With AFP