LUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned the racist massacre that left ten dead and three injured in a supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood of Buffalo, in the northeastern United States. “The Secretary-General is appalled by the killing of ten people after a despicable act of racist and violent extremism in Buffalo,” UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said in a statement.
Antonio Guterres also offered his condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims, while expressing the hope that justice would be done very quickly. For his part, US President Joe Biden will travel to Buffalo on Tuesday, accompanied by his wife Jill Biden, “to share the pain of a community that lost ten of its own in a horrific and senseless mass killing”.
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In shock, residents of the city of Buffalo in New York state paid tribute on Sunday to the ten victims, most of them African-Americans, by a white man in a shooting described by authorities as a hate crime. motivated by hate. Eleven of the victims were black people and two were white, in this predominantly African-American neighborhood of Buffalo, a northern city on Lake Erie, on the border with Canada.
A reconnaissance operation the day before
The shooter identified as Payton Gendron, 18, drove more than 300 km from his residence in Conklin in the south of the state to carry out this massacre, even carrying out a reconnaissance operation the day before the incident. The shooter threatened to kill himself before turning himself in to law enforcement. Prosecuted for “premeditated murder”, he pleaded not guilty during a first appearance before a judge.
The young man carried a camera and broadcast his crime live on Twitch even though the platform claimed to have deleted the content “two minutes” after the start of its broadcast. He also published a 180-page racist “manifesto” before the facts, according to American media. The newspaper buffalo news also revealed that an offensive, racist and taboo word in the United States to designate black people, had been painted in white on the barrel of the weapon.