Crime: injured in the pedestrian zone: FBI checks suspicion of terrorism

After an attack with six injuries in a pedestrian zone in the US state of Colorado, the federal police FBI is investigating Colorado due to suspicion of terror. It was clear that the incident in the afternoon (local time) in the city of Boulder was a “targeted act of violence”, an FBI representative said at a press conference in the late evening. According to witnesses, a male perpetrator used a make -up flame thrower in the attack, thrown a fire set into a crowd and called “Free Palestine” during the attack.

The 45-year-old suspect was later arrested on site. According to police, the victims are between 67 and 88 years old.

Secret service coordinator: Attack was carried out by Jewish community

The US intelligence agent Tulsi Gabbard spoke on platform X of a “targeted terrorist attack on a weekly meeting of members of the Jewish community”. Accordingly, these had gathered to draw attention to the fate of the Israeli hostages, which were kidnapped in the Gaza strip in October 2023 after the terrorist attack of Islamist Hamas from Israel.

In a first press conference, the local police chief Steve Redfearn first said that the investigators checked whether the attack of a peacefully demonstrating, pro-Israeli group was or other people. It was much too early to speculate about the motif, he said. “We are not talking about a terrorist attack at the moment.”

At the time, FBI boss Kash Patel already spoke of a “targeted terrorist attack”. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Minister of Homeland Protection Kristi NoEM also quickly ordered the incident on the platform X as a terrorist attack. “Terror has no place in our great country,” wrote Rubio. You pray for the victims.

What kind of injuries is it?

According to Redfearn, the local police received the information that people had set fire in a first call to the incident. The victims’ injuries matched, he said – even if the police had no reliable knowledge of the crime at the time

Redfearn spoke of burns and other injuries. According to the police, at least one of the victims is very seriously injured and may be in a critical condition. Others have suffered minor injuries. The alleged perpetrator was therefore also slightly injured to the hospital.

In the city center of Boulder, the police initially blocked a large area after the incident. Shops were closed and residents such as passers -by asked to avoid the area. Since many people were traveling there at the time of the crime, the police hoped for information from testimony.

Deadly shots in Washington are not long ago

Just a week and a half ago, a fatal attack in the US capital Washington triggered great horror worldwide: two employees of the Israeli embassy were shot there in front of the Jewish Museum. According to a document of the indictment, the alleged shooter justified with the support of the Palestinians during the war between Israel and Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Since the beginning of the war more than a year and a half ago, according to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, more than 54,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip. The war was triggered by the attack by Hamas and other Islamist terrorists on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were delayed as hostages into the Gaza strips.