Charlie Kirk: Right activist shot and died

The right-wing US podist and activist Charlie Kirk According to US President Donald Trump, after a firearm incident, it died at a university in the US state of Utah. The Republican wrote this on his Truth social platform. Kirk is a legend. “Nobody understood the youth in the United States better than Charlie or had such a sense for them.”

According to CNN, Kirk’s organization Turning Point USA confirmed his death in a statement to employees and supporters: “With a heavy heart, we, the management team of Turning Point USA, share that Charlie received his eternal reward in Jesus Christ in heaven this afternoon.”

Trump’s predecessor in office, Joe bidenalso condemned the crime. “There is no place in our country for this type of violence. It has to stop immediately,” wrote Biden in the online service X. He and his wife Jill would pray for Kirk’s family and his loved ones, he added.

Trump has ordered a multi -day mourning. “In honor of Charlie Kirks, a truly large American patriot, I arrange that all American flags in the United States will be set to half mast until Sunday evening at 6 p.m.,” Trump wrote in his online service Truth Social.

As CNN and other channels report, the shots fell, while Kirk gave a speech at a university in the city of Provo in the US state of Utah. A spokesman for the university announced Reuters by email that a shot had been fired from a nearby building.

The FBI has released a suspect arrested after killing the right US activist Charlie Kirk. “The arrested suspect was released again after a survey by the law enforcement authorities. Our investigation continues,” said the head of the US federal police, Kash Patel, on Wednesday in online service X. Less than two hours earlier, the FBI boss had written, “the person responsible for the terrible shootout today, in which Charlie Kirk died, is now in custody”.

On online platforms, users shared a video that allegedly shows the incident. It can be seen how Kirk speaks in front of hundreds of people. He sits in a chair under a tent roof with the inscription “American Comback” – the motto of Kirks Tour. Suddenly a shot can be heard, and Kirk apparently hit his seat. In great shots he seems to bleed out of his throat. It could initially not be checked whether the recordings are authentic.

The governor of the US state of California, Gavin Newsom, condemned the crime to the sharpest. “The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, hideous and reprehensible,” said Newsom as representative of the Democratic Party in the online service X. “In the United States, we have to reject political violence in any form.”

Kirk was one of the best known right -wing activists in the USA and was close to Trump. Kirk was the founder of the conservative student organization Turning Point USA. He played a key role in mobilizing the support of young voters for Trump in the presidential election in November. His events on university premises across the country usually attracted many people. With the “Charlie Kirk Show” he had his own podcast.

Trump described Kirk as the “martyr of truth” and blamed the “radical left” for his death. “For years, radical left -wing Americans like Charlie have compared with Nazis and the world’s largest mass murderers and criminals,” said Trump in a video published on his online service Truth.

“This rhetoric is directly for terrorism that we see in our country today and that must stop immediately,” added Trump. “My government will find everyone who has contributed to this atrocity and any other form of political violence, including the organizations that finance and support them,” announced the president.

Activists from Trump’s Maga movement (Make America Great Again, makes America great again) celebrated Kirk as a martyr, who died for conservative values. “We now need a steel will. Charlie Kirk died on the front,” said ultra-right ideologist and former Trump consultant Steve Bannon in the broadcaster “Real America’s Voice”, in which Kirk also had a show. “The movement started by Charlie Kirk will never end,” said right -wing activist Jack Posobiec in an interview with Bannon.

In the United States, fatal firearms are part of everyday life. There are always always to be felled at universities. Pistols and weapons of larger calibers are easily accessible and in circulation. Particularly severe attacks always spark debates about tightening weapons law. However, concrete progress has so far failed to do so – especially because of the resistance of the republican And the financially influential weapon lobby that have been blocking reforms for years.

Note: This article has been updated several times.