2023-05-18 06:26:00
The 35-year-old Uzbek had already been found guilty of his crimes last January. However, after several days of deliberation, the twelve-person jury told Manhattan federal court that they had not reached a unanimous decision on the death penalty, as required by law. As a result, the defendant had been sentenced, in March, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, which was the only other option for the jury.
The exact sentence has now been set by the court, namely: life imprisonment for each of the murders.
Before the sentence, Saipov spoke in Uzbek through a translator for almost an hour on the history of Islam, trying to justify his crimes, without showing the slightest remorse.
Terrorist attack in Manhattan: the author of the attack in 2017, which had made a Belgian victim, is found guilty
The sister of the Belgian victim (Ann-Laure Decadt) killed in this attack, exclaimed in the courtroom, after his intervention: “The only act of the devil here is the act that you have committed !”.
On October 31, 2017, the day of Halloween, Sayfullo Saipov, installed in the United States since 2010, had rushed aboard a pick-up in the direction of passers-by on a cycle path on the banks of the Hudson River, in Manhattan . The attack left eight dead and many injured, the highest toll for an attack in the city since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The man claimed responsibility for his act on behalf of IS.
Among those killed was Ann-Laure Decadt, 31, from the town of Staden in West Flanders. Three other Belgians, a father, a mother and their son, were also injured.
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