Images from the surveillance camera with Irina Zaruţka before being killed. Photo source: Charlotte Area Transit / Planet / Planet / Profimedia
US President Donald Trump asked the capital punishment on Wednesday for the assassin of a deadly stabbed in a tram in the city of Charlotte, whose death caused indignation in the United States, especially among conservative personalities, AFP and EFE news agencies transmit.
“The animal who killed the beautiful young woman from Ukraine, who came to America, seeking peace and security, should receive a” fast “trial (there is no doubt!) And be sentenced to death. There can be no other option! ”, Wrote the president on his Social Truth network.
On the evening of August 22, Irina Zaruţka climbed into a tram in the city of Charlotte in the eastern state. After a few minutes, an individual also climbed, sat behind the young woman, then attacked her and killed her with three knife blows, as the images captured on the surveillance camera.
The young 23 -year -old blonde had left Ukraine in 2022, after the Russian invasion, and “had quickly made a new life in the Unit states”, writes in her death certificate.
The assassin, Decarlos Brown, a 34-year-old African-American, has several criminal convictions, spending, among others, eight years in prison for armed robbery.
The mayor of Charlotte, Democrat VI Lyles, spoke a few days after the event, about the mental disorders that Brown had suffered for a long time.
“I want to say clearly, I do not diabolize those who have difficulties with mental health or who have no home,” she said.
The case, at the beginning of local resonance, took a national magnitude with the publication, on Friday, the extremely shocking images captured by the surveillance camera.
The initial reaction of Mayor VI Lyles then caused indignant reactions from the right.
The Minister of Transport, Sean Duffy, accused the Democrat and “others on the left” of “minimizing crimes like the one in saying that we cannot deacon the homeless or mentally ill.”
The case was also intensely commented on by President Trump, who wants to place the fight against crime in front of his agenda, especially in the big cities run by Democrats, accused of laxism.
“We cannot leave some depraved criminals and violent recidivists to continue to sow destruction and death in our country,” he said in a video post on Social Truth.
The Department of Justice to the defendant on Brown this week for committing a federal crime, following a complaint filed with the Federal Court of the West District of the State of North Carolina. Brown risks life imprisonment or capital punishment.
These accusations are added to those already brought before a state court, a crime of grade one, liable to the same punishments. In North Carolina, a moratorium on executions has been in force since 2006.
