A federal jury in Manhattan has indicted Saifullah Saipov, the Uzbek extremist who ran over eight cyclists and pedestrians in New York in 2017 in the name of the Islamic State.
The man, who has been on trial since January 9, was convicted of 28 charges, including eight related to “murder with the aim of joining the Islamic State”, which are “charges punishable by death or life imprisonment,” according to the Manhattan federal prosecutor.
The attack resulted in the deadliest outcome in New York after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and occurred more than a year after the Nice attack in southern France, when a 31-year-old Tunisian rammed his truck into a crowd watching the fireworks display on July 14, leaving 86 dead and more than 400 injured.
