(OREM) Donald Trump called on his supporters on Thursday to respond in a non-violent manner to the assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, the authorities still seeking the murderer in the United States plagued by a revival of political violence.
More than 24 hours after this murder who shocked this deeply divided country, the police said they followed several tracks, without any suspect being held.
Charlie Kirk, a standard bearer of the Trumpist youth now seen as a “martyr” by the American right, was killed on Wednesday in the neck when he participated in a public debate at a university of Utah, in the west of the United States.
If the identity and motivations of the murderer are still unknown, the FBI, the federal police, spoke of a “targeted act. »»
Donald Trump, who had questioned “the radical left” as early as Wednesday evening, now calls for his support for caution.
“He campaigned for non-violence. This is how I would like people to answer, “the president told the press on Thursday. He had announced earlier that he would “soon” give the 31 -year -old victim to the presidential freedom of freedom posthumously.
“Charlie has become a martyr of freedom of expression,” said Carson Caines, a computer student met by AFP on the university campus in the aftermath of the drama.
Photo Bastien Inzaurralde, Agency France-Presse
The director of the local antenna of the FBI, Robert Bohls, and the commissioner of the Public Security Department of Utah, Beau Mason
At 23, this young Mormon “very angry”, who forged his political conscience with the videos of Charlie Kirk, admits having wanted to “react physically” by learning the death of the one he sees as “the spokesperson of our generation”. But he “refuses to feed the cycle of violence”.
Investigation
At the same time, the investigation continues to find the murderer.
Police announced Thursday that they had found the crime weapon in groves, a rifle, as well as a shoe fingerprint and a palm imprint. She also says it has “good video images” of a suspect who would be “aged at university”.
Two photographs published by the FBI show a slender man wearing dark clothes, with a long sleeve sweater sporting the American flag, sunglasses and a cap.
Police asked for the public to identify this person, without specifying the reasons why they were sought. Police have announced a reward of up to $ 100,000 for any information related to the survey, and more than 200 information has already been sent to investigators, the authorities said.
Vice-president JD Vance, who praised in Charlie Kirk a “real friend”, arrived in Utah to meet the influencer’s family. His coffin will then be transported to the vice-president’s plane to Phoenix, seat of the youth movement that the victim co-founded, Turning Point USA.
Heavy political climate
Charlie Kirk was asked about fire-by-fire violence in the United States during a public debate on the Utah Valley University campus, in front of around 3000 people, when a shot has sounded. Touched on the neck by a ball from a roof, the activist immediately collapsed.
While the crowd was panicked, the news spread like a trail of powder in all the United States where political violence has intensified in recent years.
Donald Trump himself was the victim of two assassination attempts during the last electoral campaign. This year, Melissa Hortman, elected Democrat in the Minnesota Parliament and her husband were killed and another local elected official was seriously injured.
Photo Daniel Becerril, Reuters
A sign on which we can read “Thank you, Charlie” in front of the American flag at half mast of the White House.
The American left, pointed out by Donald Trump, denounced in unison the assassination of Charlie Kirk, ex-president Joe Biden calling for this type of violence “ceases immediately”.
Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, Christian and defender of the port of firearms, this father of two children had abandoned his studies to devote himself to activism. Turning Point USA, the movement he co-founded in 2012 when he had 18, became in a decade the most important group of young conservatives in the United States.
