Published June 21, 2021 at 2.15pm
Media. When a car ran into a Pride train in Florida, it was immediately portrayed as a “terrorist act” in the media. But now it turns out that the driver himself was a gay activist and that it was all an accident.
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– This is a terrorist attack aimed at the LGBTQ movement, said Dean Trantalis, Florida's mayor yesterday, which, among other things, SVT wrote about then.
SVT could report that the current the car had first driven the Pride train in Fort Lauderdale north of Miami, Florida. state-owned Swedish public service giant.
One of the two victims died of his injuries.
But later it became clear that it was not a terrorist attack at all. Police said on Sunday that “yesterday's incident was a tragic accident, and not a criminal act against anyone, or any group of people”.
The driver turned out to be a 77-year-old member of the gay choir “Fort Lauderdale Gay Men's Chorus “, which participated in the parade.