The attack with explosive devices against Mamdani’s residence is investigated as “terrorism related to ISIS”

The New York Police Department (NYPD) investigates as a act of “terrorism related to the Islamic State (IS)” the failed launch of an improvised explosive device and another device in front of the mayor’s official residence Zohran Mamdani, during the protests last weekend.

The same man who threw the first device lit a second one while fleeing and dropped it on the street before being subdued by the officers, who cordoned off the area and searched the device.

Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch said, “Preliminary test results determined that these were not hoax devices or smoke bombs. They were improvised explosive devices that could have caused serious injury or death“.

Two men were arrested in connection with these events – Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19 – and, according to police sources cited by CNNboth admitted having been inspired by ISIS, Therefore, the case is being investigated as possible jihadist-motivated terrorism with the participation of the FBI and the Joint Counter-Terrorism Force.

Mamdani called the launching of both devices “reprehensible” and “an attack on the city’s values.”

Through an official statement, the first Muslim mayor in the history of the New York city denounced that the protest, organized by Lang, was “rooted in bigotry and racism.”

“This kind of hate has no place in New York City. “It is an affront to our unity,” said the mayor, who also described as “disturbing” the use of devices with explosive potential to try to hurt citizens.

So far, the authorities have confirmed the arrest of six people, two of them directly linked to the launching of the objects.