The FBI is investigating the visits of the New Orleans attacker to Egypt and Canada, Reuters reports, quoted by News.bg.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old US Army veteran and Islamic State sympathizer, is the main suspect in the New Orleans attack. According to the FBI, he acted alone. The man died in a shootout with police after the attack, which killed 15 people.
Lionel Myrtil, an FBI special agent in charge of the New Orleans field office, said that Jabbar's travels to Cairo in June 2023 are being checked. In July of that year, he flew to Canada and returned to the United States on July 10. According to Myrtle, they are investigating where he went, who he met, and how those trips may or may not be connected to his actions in New Orleans.
The FBI added that Jabbar made at least two trips to New Orleans in the months before the attack - one in October and the other in November. He stayed in a rented apartment in the city during that time and recorded videos of his journey through the French Quarter, where the attack later took place.
We recall that on January 1, a pickup truck plowed into a crowd in New Orleans, killing 15 people. The governor of the state of Louisiana declared a state of emergency. The attacker was killed in the shootout, and it was determined that he acted alone. Donald Trump blamed President Joe Biden for what happened.