FBI confirms New Orleans attack was a terrorist incident

Joshua Jackson– the special agent accountable for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives New Orleans field division– stated at the press conference that an agency team is helping secure the Sugar Dish that is occurring in New Orleans on Thursday. The college football playoff was scheduled to take place on New Year’s Day yet was pressed back following the assault.

Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Department, stated at a press conference Thursday that the strike, which killed a minimum of 14 individuals and hurt 35 even more, was an act of terrorism. The FBI is the lead agency examining the case.

FBI officials said Thursday that the individual thought to be behind the New Orleans New Year’s Day strike was “100% motivated by ISIS,” keeping in mind that he published videos supporting the Islamic militant organization, stated he had actually signed up with the group and an ISIS flag was discovered with his lorry.

A participant of the FBI’s Evidence Feedback Team takes photos on New Orleans’ Bourbon Road complying with a New Year’s Day attack in which an individual drove into a group. The FBI is rising representatives to explore the occurrence.
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Raia additionally claimed that the FBI does not currently evaluate that any individual else was associated with the New Orleans attack which there is no definitive link in between it and the surge Wednesday of a Tesla Cybertruck beyond the Trump hotel in Las vega. The only fatality of that incident was a specific in the car.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry claimed at journalism conference that more than 1,000 government, state and neighborhood police officers have been associated with the examination, and Raia stated that the FBI is rising personnel to New Orleans.

“Special agents in numerous area offices throughout the country have been deployed and are helping with prospective aspects of this investigation and following up on every lead,” he claimed, noting the company has received more than 400 tips.