Assassination of Charlie Kirk | The alleged killer was arrested, according to Trump

(OREM) The alleged killer of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was arrested, Donald Trump said on an interview with the Fox News television channel on Friday.

“I think, with a high degree of certainty, that we have it in detention,” said the American president, adding that “someone very close to him denounced him”.

He notably explained that the father of the suspect himself as well as a pastor had played a role in this arrest.

“I could be wrong, but I tell you what I heard,” added the American president on the channel set in New York.

Utah’s Republican Governor Spencer Cox earlier exhorted the population to help the authorities capture “this malicious human being”, stressing that the death penalty would be required against him.

Police have announced a reward of up to $ 100,000 for any information related to the survey. Until now, more than 7000 reports have been received by the police.

The authorities have published photos and videos of the suspect: a slender young man, dressed in a dark long sleeve t-shirt with an American flag on the torso, jeans and sunglasses, blue cap on the head and sports shoes on the feet.

On a video posted by the FBI, we see a person identified as the suspect running on a roof after shooting and jumping with address to the ground. We then see him crossing a very frequented street and disappear in a wooded area, where the investigators then found a 30-06 Mauser hunting rifle.

Drapel of the Trumpist youth now seen as a “martyr” by the American right, Charlie Kirk was killed on Wednesday in the neck when he participated in a public debate in a university of Utah.

If the identity and motivations of the murderer are always unknown, the FBI has raised a targeted act. »»

Donald Trump, who had questioned the responsibility of the “radical left” as of Wednesday, now calls for restraint.

Trump calls for non-violence

“He campaigned for non-violence. This is how I would like people to answer, “the Republican president said on Thursday, after having announced that he would give the 31 -year -old victim the presidential freedom of freedom, the highest American civil distinction, posthumously.

On the conservative channel Fox News, an influential commentator said that the murder of Charlie Kirk showed that the conservative camp was attacked. “Whether we accept it or not, they are at war with us,” he said, implicitly targeting progressives.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was however unanimously condemned by the entire American political spectrum.

“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.

23 years old, this young Mormon “very angry”, who forged his political conscience with the videos of Charlie Kirk, admits having wanted to “react physically”, but “refuses to feed the cycle of violence”.

Through the United States, funeral vigils have been organized to pay tribute to the activist.

On the Orem campus, several hundred people wearing red caps Maga (“Make America Great Again”, Donald Trump’s slogan) and holding American flags gathered and prayed in memory of the deceased.

“It always seems insane that it has happened,” said Jonathan Silva, 35, to AFP. “It’s totally surreal”.

His wife Angelina, 27, told AFP how violent political polarization prompted the couple to question their plans to have a child. “It seems a little desperate to try to start a family and raise children in a society where there is so much hatred and so much division.”

Vice-president JD Vance, who praised in Charlie Kirk a “real friend”, canceled his arrival at the September 11 commemorations in New York to meet the family of the deceased in Utah.

Vance carries the coffin

Illustration of the proximity that Charlie Kirk maintained with the American executive, JD VANCE A, according to a video shared by the White House, helped to wear the coffin for a few meters to bring it aboard his government plane.

The aircraft then won Phoenix, in Arizona, the siege of Turning Point USA, the youth movement that Charlie Kirk had co -founded in 2012.

The United States has experienced an increase in political violence 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.