The murderer of the five Rosario in New York was closer to a conviction

Sayfullo Saipov, the terrorist who murdered five Rosarinos in New York in 2017, was on the verge of receiving the death sentence after the judge who presided over the case dismissed a measure filed by the Uzbek defense, jailed security in the American city, in which it was planned to eliminate the evidence referring to mobile phones he had in the truck with which he had perpetrated the attack.

Judge Vernon Broderick, who is charged with the trial of the killing of five Rosarinos on October 31, 2017 in Manhattan at the hands of the Uzbek jihadist, rejected the request of defense lawyers who wanted to eliminate the evidence because " irrelevant ". badociated with the case ", referring to the possibility that prosecutors could show jurors the contents of the conversations of two phones found in the truck that Saipov had usually crush and kill the locals of Rosario on a bike path in the American city.

This measure left the terrorist closer to the death penalty if he was found guilty of the act. The federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan has already announced that if this scenario occurs, it would seek the death penalty.

Saipov is 30 years old and is accused of killing five friends of Rosario, two US citizens and a Belgian tourist. For all these reasons, he was indicted by 22 US federal courts in November 2017.

At the time of seeking the death penalty, the Manhattan federal prosecutor's office referred to the "future danger" of the accused, who had chosen the location of the attack to "maximize" the number of casualties and "l & rsquo; No remorse "; all in a document presented at the end of September of last year.

The fatal victims (Ariel Erlij, Hernán Diego Mendoza, Enrique Angelini Diego, Hernán Ferruchi and Alejandro Damián Pagnucco) were alumni of the Polytechnic Institute, promoted in 1987, and had surrendered to the States United States to celebrate 30 years of graduating from this school.

In New York, as he walked along the bike path in the Tribeca neighborhood on the south of Manhattan Island, the horror hit: the Uzbek terrorist screwed up a rented truck.

During his first statements during his interrogation by the police, he boasted of his "pride" of the act committed. He did it from his hospital bed where he came in after consuming the event and being shot by an officer in the vicinity of Ground Zero.

Knives and between 10 and 15 pieces of paper written in Arabic praising the Islamic State were found in the truck. Saipov had rented the truck with which he had made this huge shock hours before the Paterson mbadacre (where he had settled at home) in the state of New Jersey, 35 kilometers from Manhattan.

The suspect had an identity card in Florida and public records indicate an address badociated with him in that state, specifically in the city of Tampa.

The Uzbek was the driver of Uber in the six months preceding the attack. In a statement, the company was "horrified" and reported that Saipov had pbaded the background check, made about 1,400 trips and found no complaints from its users, only minor traffic faults. .

Saipov will await his conviction at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a maximum security prison in New York, where other high-risk criminals, such as Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, are also accommodated.

In the same prison where Chapo Guzmán is.

Under registration number 79715-054, Uzbekistan Sayfullo Saipov is staying at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) of New York City, pending the trial that will be held against him for crushing and murdering eight people, including five of Rosario, in 2017.

In the building described by the Los Angeles Times as "the New York Guantanamo", Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán is also being held and other criminals have already been sentenced, such as the nephew of Bernie Madoff and Nicolás Maduro, Franqui Flores.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian who was found guilty of playing a key role in al-Qaida attacks on US embbadies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, also killed more than 220 people. and about 4,000 were injured.

As a result, he was locked up in Guantanamo Bay and sentenced to life imprisonment.