By India Today World Desk: The man, who drove a rented area truck into security boundaries near the White House on Monday night time (US time), was acknowledged as 19-year-old Indian-origin Sai Varshith Kandula. The accused, who was detained by the Secret Service, was charged with threatening US President Joe Biden after the ‘deliberate’ crash.
In an announcement, the US Park Police talked about Kandula faces a battery of costs, along with threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict damage on the president, vice chairman, or a member of the household.
No weapons have been found contained within the truck, the police talked about. However, a Reuters witness seen investigators pull a Nazi swastika flag from contained within the truck.
A Nazi flag and totally different objects recovered from the truck that crashed near the White House in Washington, US, May 23, 2023 (Credits: Reuters)
Authorities moreover talked about the truck crash triggered no accidents.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s exact location on the time of the crash merely sooner than 10 pm (0200 GMT Tuesday) was unclear.
He had met with the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, on the White House earlier on Monday night time.
WHAT HAPPENED NEAR WHITE HOUSE
A Missouri man flew to Washington, rented a U-Haul truck and drove straight to the White House, the place he crashed the truck proper into a security barrier and commenced waving spherical a Nazi flag inside the fruits of a six-month plan to “seize power” from the federal authorities.
Sai Varshith Kandula eradicated the flag from a backpack shortly after smashing the sphere truck into the barrier near the north side of Lafayette Square, consistent with charging paperwork.
He was shortly arrested by an officer who moreover seen him take out the flag.
KANDULA’s CONFESSION
Kandula later knowledgeable Secret Service brokers that he flew from St. Louis on a one-way ticket that night after months of planning.
He wished to “get to the White House, seize power, and be put in charge of the nation,” and talked about he would “kill the President if that’s what I have to do,” costs state.
Kandula, who’s from the St Louis suburb of Chesterfield, Missouri, talked about he bought the flag on-line on account of he admires the Nazis’ “great history” along with their “authoritarian nature, eugenics, and their one world order.”
The accused had rented the U-Haul in Herndon, Virginia, and had a sound contract in his private title, the company talked about.
