A menorah in front of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue commemorating the victims of the bombing (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, file)
A US federal court on Friday found Robert Bowers guilty of killing 11 people in the 2018 bombing of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The attack is considered one of the most serious anti-Semitic acts in recent US history: According to reconstructions, Bowers fired rifles and pistols inside the synagogue for several minutes, then walked out and was arrested by the police shortly afterwards. He was found guilty of all 63 charges against him, including various violent crimes and hate crimes.
Bowers is 51 years old and was a truck driver in 2018. He took anti-Semitic positions and blamed Jews for the migration flows to the United States. In this first phase of the trial it was only necessary to establish whether Bowers was guilty or not, while in a second phase, which could last another month and a half, the sentence against him will be decided: given the allegations, the decision will be made only between the death penalty and life imprisonment.
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