(Washington) The alleged murderer in May in Washington of an Israeli-American Jewish couple could incur the death penalty if he is condemned for murder and racist and anti-Semitic crime, the new federal prosecutor of the capital said on Thursday.
The general prosecutor PAM Bondi will have to decide whether to institute the federal prosecutor’s office in Washington to request the capital punishment against Elias Rodriguez, a 31 -year -old Chicago man, warned the brand new prosecutor of the city, Jeanine Pirro.
The suspect had been arrested on the evening of the evening immediately after killing the Israeli Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and his American fiancée Sarah Milgrim, 26, outside the Jewish Museum in Washington.
Photo Jose Luis Magana, Associated Press
The new Washington prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro
In addition to his charge for voluntary homicide and assassination, Mr. Rodriguez is prosecuted for “crime motivated by hatred”, the equivalent of crimes against people because of their racial, ethnic or cultural belonging, “because he had prejudices against the people of Israel”, according to the prosecutor Pirro.
“We have a problem with anti -Semitism in this country,” said the magistrate, a former judge and presenter on Fox News television who took office a few days ago after his appointment by Donald Trump and his confirmation by the Senate.
“This is a problem that we are not going to tolerate more,” she hammered, while the United States has the greatest number of Jews in the world, behind Israel, and have been shaken since the war in the Gaza Strip by Propalentinian demonstrations and by an increase in anti-Semitism.
Since their return to power on January 20, President Donald Trump and his government have investigated the Ministry of Justice and his federal prosecutors to require the death penalty for the most serious crimes-such as acts of “terrorism” and crimes called “motivated by hatred”-while this was frozen under the Democrats of Joe Biden (2021-2025) and Barack Obama Obama Obama Obama (2009-2017).
According to the police, Elias Rodriguez, called for “the release of Palestine” and at the end of the war in the Gaza Strip by opening fire on Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, working at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, and which were that evening at a reception at the Jewish Museum in the capital.
