Sentenced to ten life sentences for the Uzbek man who ran over and killed eight people in New York

The Uzbek terrorist who ran over and killed eight people (including five Argentines) in New York in 2017, this Wednesday he was sentenced to ten life sentences plus 260 years in prisonit was announced by the Ministry of Justice.

They are life sentences for each fatality, plus two more, plus 260 years, according to Judge Vernon Broderick, who applied the March 3 verdict of the jury, which for its part declined to impose the sentence. death after a deliberation that lasted 9 hours.

Sayfullo Saipov, 35, a self-confessed jihadistdrove his truck into people on a Manhattan bike path on Halloween night 2017, killing eight and injuring 12 others.

At today’s session, according to various media present, Saipov spoke for more than an hour, and gave a speech full of religious references and pointing the finger at the sky on numerous occasions, quoting various prophets from the Koran and even Adam and Eve and the temptation of the snake.

The judge gave the floor to relatives of the dead, such as the Argentinian Gabriela Perey, widow of Ariel Erli, who confronted Saipov: “Your god thinks you’re a coward because you didn’t kill yourself when you killed them. And if you want him to accept you and love you, go kill yourself,” he snapped, reports Fox News.

The dead Argentines were part of a group of ten friends who lived in the city of Rosario and were celebrating the 30th anniversary of their university degrees together in New York when they were found dead.

Rachel Pharn, who survived the attack, spoke and told him that his actions “do not serve Allah”, and asked him: “If you say that you are not sorry, that you did it on purpose, is that true? I need to know why, how I can fix you and how I can fix the world around me,” he told the court.

Of the twelve wounded, some had their legs amputated, and many have huge scars on their bodies.

Prosecutors in the case left behind a written document that read: “Saipov is a shameless terrorist, a proud killer that he deserves no sympathy and must be punished to the fullest extent of the law,” they said.