How brilliant student Luigi Mangione is turning from murderer to hero
2024-12-11 11:12:27
TiranaPost
Luigi Mangione, 26, killed Brian Thompson, the head of Healthcare, and became famous for it. 300 thousand followers have been added to his social networks. Americans are also supporting him. Why? Who was Luigi and what is his story that has made Americans see him not as a murderer, but as a hero?
The first thing a murderer on the run does is get rid of any evidence that links him to the murder. Luigi Mangione, arrested by police at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania, 250 miles from the Hilton in New York where he killed United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson last Wednesday, was carrying the gun he used in the crime. He also had four different ID cards with him.
Thompson's killer was not a professional killer, but a politically motivated extremist, an engineer with an excellent academic record.
A great love for technology: perhaps that's why he shot his victim with a gun made with a 3D printer. He didn't try to flee the country.
This 26-year-old of Italian descent born in Maryland, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, was an engineer at TrueCar, a company in Santa Monica, California, which sells cars online, until 2023.
Why did he kill him?
He gave a general reason, related to his hostility to the inequalities of the capitalist system, which he believed caused the most serious social consequences in the world of private healthcare. He said: It was a kind of revenge for the suffering of some of my relatives, who were unable to receive proper treatment.
Coming from a wealthy family
He doesn't come from a poor family. His grandfather is a real estate developer with a vast fortune in clubs, radio stations, and a chain of nursing homes, one of which is owned by Luigi's father, and where Luigi worked as a volunteer in one of these nursing homes when he was sixteen.
Luigi attended the prestigious University
of Pennsylvania, where Trump and Musk studied, a school that costs $40,000 a year. He also gave an interesting public speech at his graduation as the best student.
What happened in the last 6 months?
Everything changed six months ago, when Luigi suddenly disappeared from social media and did not appear again, even with his family and friends. A mysterious turning point, certainly linked to his approach to the philosophy of the anarchist terrorist Unabomber, whom he praised in January on social media.
Perhaps there is a traumatic fact, a physical trauma, that contributes to the transformation of an excellent student into a vengeful manager of the health care system.
Perhaps it could all be related to the fact that Luigi has suffered since childhood from a dislocation of several vertebrae.
Despite this problem, he trains at the gym. He falls, hits his back, and the pathology worsens. Last year, he had spinal surgery.
When friends asked him how it went, he replied that it was a long story. He often complained that he felt numb, unable to have a normal social life and have relationships. Then he would disappear. He used tranquilizers. But did he become addicted to them? Could they have damaged his personality?
The mystery of the day of the murder
It remains to be understood how Luigi Mangione knew at what time and from which side Thompson would enter the Hilton.
