The terrorist who murdered five men from Rosario in New York was closer to the death penalty

Judge Vernon Broderick, who is leading the trial for the killing of five residents of Rosario on October 31, 2017 in Manhattan, in the hands of an Uzbek jihadist, denied the request of defense lawyers who had requested the suppression of evidence, deemed "irrelevant case", which left the terrorist closer to the death penalty if found guilty.

The Manhattan federal prosecutor's office announced today that it would seek the death penalty if Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek jihadist accused of killing five Rosario and three other people at one time. attack on October 31 in New York, was found guilty.

For this, prosecutors can show jurors the contents of the conversations of two phones found in the truck that Saipov used to kill and kill in a bike path in New York after the judge's dismissal. Vernon Broderick of the petition of Saipov's lawyers who claimed that these tests should be dismissed as "irrelevant and not badociated with the case".

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The deceased were Ariel Erlij, Hernán Ferruchi, Alejandro Pagnucco, Hernán Mendoza and Diego Angelini. The rest of the group was integrated by: Ariel Benvenuto, Juan Pablo Trevisan, Iván Brajkovic and Martín Marro. All were former students of the Polytechnic Institute of General San Martín.

The residents of Rosario had left a few days before the tragedy at Fisherton's Islas Malvinas International Airport. Before embarking, eight of them took a picture with printed t shirts for the occasion. "Free" says the legend.

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Saipov, 30, was indicted by 22 federal judges last November. He pleaded not guilty to the charges that were communicated to him and the trial is expected to open on October 7, according to the portal Infobae.

The attack, perpetrated under the alleged membership of the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS), was the deadliest in New York since the attacks of September 11, 2001.

The Manhattan federal prosecutor explained that the death sentence had been requested and that Saipov was defending "the cause of the Islamic State", whose one goal is to kill as many people as possible. Americans possible. "