The gunman killed Thursday by law enforcement following trying to break into the offices of the federal police (FBI) in Ohio had posted a “call to arms” on Donald Trump’s social network, Truth Social , several American media reported on Friday.
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Several US media released screenshots of the account in the name of the suspect identified by Ohio police as 42-year-old Ricky Shiffer, which read: “This is a call to arms.”
The account has since been removed from Truth Social.
“I propose war”, adds the author, calling on “patriots” to go to Florida and kill FBI agents, the day following the search Monday at the home of former President Donald Trump in Florida, an unprecedented raid which angers the Republican camp.
The author confesses to having attempted to enter by force the premises of the FBI in Cincinnati.
“I thought I might drill armored windows, and I mightn’t,” he explains. “If you haven’t heard from me, it’s true that I tried to attack the FBI, and that will mean that I was banned from the internet, that the FBI got me or that ‘they sent in the police for…’ he wrote in a message that was interrupted in mid-sentence and posted on Thursday morning, according to media reports.
The FBI had announced an armed person had tried to “break into” its offices in Cincinnati, Ohio early Thursday morning.
According to local media, the man, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, used a nail gun and brandished an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon, before fleeing by car.
After a chase with the police, the man took refuge in a cornfield, where he was surrounded by the police. When they tried to arrest him, he brandished his firearm in the direction of the police, who fired, fatally wounding him.
