(Washington) The young man arrested for the assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk had a left-wing ideology and lived with a transgender person, the governor of Utah said on Sunday, details likely to exacerbate the keen political debate in an ultra-polarized America.
The roommate “had a romantic relationship” with the alleged murderer. He is “a man in gender transition to become a woman,” said Spencer Cox.
Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested Thursday evening in Utah, suspected of having shot down the day before, with his bezel rifle, Charlie Kirk, in the midst of a public meeting on a campus in the same state. The alleged shooter has “a left -wing ideology,” added Mr. Cox, who is a republican.
No link has yet been determined between the transgender roommate and the murder of Charlie Kirk.
But the broom killed at the age of 31, Trumpist youth rack, has often criticized LGBT+ rights and in particular those of transgender people. And many figures of the far right quickly established a rapprochement.
Among them, Laura Loomer, who has President Donald Trump’s ear, said that “the trans movement as a terrorist movement was necessary to” classify.
For his part, Donald Trump has been kidding tirelessly since his return to power the “transgender delirium”, which, according to him, ravages the United States and to which he promised to put an end.
When he was struck on the neck by a fatal bullet, Charlie Kirk had just said that there were “too” firearm killings involving transgender people. But nothing indicates that the shooter could hear these words from the roof of a building, more than a hundred meters away, where he had positioned himself.
“Radical left”
Already at the end of August, the extreme right had grabbed a shooting in Minneapolis, in Minnesota (North), perpetrated by a transgender person, to affirm, without any supporting statistics, that these people represented a threat.
“The radical left” contributed to the murder of Charlie Kirk, thundered Donald Trump in a video published on the evening of the assassination.
A former ally-procurement of the American president, the billionaire Elon Musk launched on his social network X on Saturday: “The left is the party of the murder. »»
The police found on the scene of the crime of the sockets with messages like “Eh fascist!” Grabbed! »Or refer to Italian anti -fascist song Bella Ciao.
Barack Obama’s Democratic political figures to Joe Biden via California Governor Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris, unanimously condemned the assassination.
“Government’s response cannot be to repress individuals or groups because they are in political disagreement,” said former Minister of Transport by Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg. He warned against the “exploitation” of the death of Charlie Kirk, cantor of a Christian and traditionalist America.
A large national tribute ceremony at the deceased is scheduled for September 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, in a stage of capacity exceeding 63,000 places. Donald Trump promised to be present at the funeral of Charlie Kirk, without specifying if it was this event.
