Smoke, screams, the sound of a fire extinguisher. This is how the immolation of a young man began at 1:35 pm (local time), who set himself on fire in front of the courts where former President Donald Trump is being tried. His name is Max Azzarello and, according to American media, he was protesting against a government that, in his opinion, is about to carry out a coup d'état.
Trump is being prosecuted for allegedly bribing a porn actress with whom he denies having a relationship. A critical stage in the trial had just been completed: the selection of the jury and six substitutes, up to a total of 18 people who in the next six weeks must determine the fate of the former president. The young man did not say anything, according to witnesses told local media, but before setting himself on fire he threw a series of pamphlets into the air that made reference to former President George W. Bush and the lawyers who defended him in that trial related to the electoral count of the year 2000.
He was wearing jeans and a dark t-shirt. He entered the area designated for protesters in Collect Pond Park, spilled a flammable liquid on himself, stuck out his chest, and lit the fuse at that point. The man fell to the ground while witnesses tried to put out the flames. Someone even took off his jacket and got a fire extinguisher. They say he was alive when the ambulance arrived, but his condition is unknown. Two months ago, an American soldier lost his life after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli consulate in Washington.
Witnesses reported seeing a man engulfed in flames for more than three minutes. “He was totally charred.” The shocking development came shortly after jury selection for the trial concluded, clearing the way for prosecutors and defense attorneys to make opening statements next week in a case stemming from the payment of undercover money. to a porn movie star.
The twelve jurors, along with six alternates, will examine the evidence in a trial that for the first time will determine whether a former US president is guilty of breaking the law.
The jury is made up of seven men and five women, mostly employed in liberal professions: two corporate lawyers, a computer engineer, a speech therapist and an English teacher. Most are not natives of New York, but come from all over the United States and countries such as Ireland and Lebanon.
$130,000
Trump is accused of covering up the $130,000 payment his former lawyer Michael Cohen made to porn actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election to keep her quiet about a sexual encounter she claims they had a decade earlier.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and denies any such encounter with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
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