Polisen släpper Orlando-skyttens samtal med polis
Under det utdragna massmordet i Orlando förra helgen talade gärningsmannen Omar Mateen med polisens förhandlare tre gånger. I morgon kommer delar av samtalen att offentliggöras. Det säger USA:s justitieminister Loretta Lynch i en intervju med CNN:s State of the Union.
– Han pratade om att han svurit trohet till en terroristgrupp. Han pratade om sina motiv till varför han genomförde sitt fruktansvärda dåd, säger Lynch.
Enligt tidigare uppgifter ska Mateen under samtalet tagit ställning för terrorgruppen IS.
49 människor dödades i skjutningen som är den dödligaste i USA:s historia.
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Masskjutningen i Orlando 2016
Wikipedia (en)
On June 12, 2016, a mass shooting occurred inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Fifty people died, including the gunman, who was killed by Orlando police after a three-hour standoff. An additional 53 people were injured. It was the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in the United States, and the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in that country. The attack was widely denounced both as an act of terrorism and a hate crime.
The assailant was identified as 29-year-old Omar Mateen, a U.S. citizen born to parents of Afghan background. Witnesses said he was a regular patron of the nightclub and had used gay dating websites in the past, although the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is skeptical of such reports. In a 9-1-1 call shortly after the attack began, he swore allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said it found no links between ISIL and Mateen. He has been reported to have expressed hostility towards LGBTs and other minorities.
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