The New Year vehicular attack in New Orleans is being probed as an act of terrorism, the FBI has confirmed.
“The FBI is the lead investigative agency, and we are working with our partners to investigate this as an act of terrorism,” a spokesperson for the agency told The Epoch Times in an email.
Around 3:15 a.m. local time on Jan. 1, a man drove a pickup truck through a large crowd in the French Quarter neighborhood, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell in a news conference several hours after the incident said that the city had been “impacted by a terrorist attack.” But Alethea Duncan, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s office in New Orleans, had said shortly after that it was “not a terrorist event” even though an improvised explosive device had been located….