(New York) The anti-feminist lawyer suspected of killing the son of a judge on Sunday in New Jersey, before taking his own life, is also implicated in the murder of a competing lawyer on 11 July near Los Angeles, US Federal Police said on Wednesday.
Posted on 22 July 2020 at 16 h 20
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“We are working with the San Bernardino Sheriff's Office and have evidence linking the murder of Marc Angelucci to Roy Den Hollander,” the FBI office in Newark, New Jersey said in a tweet.
Roy Den Hollander, found dead at his home in New York State on Monday, is suspected of being the man who appeared at the home of Federal Judge Esther Salas on Sunday, slaughtering his son of 20 years old, who opened the door for her, and seriously injuring her husband. The judge wasn’t hurt.
He is now suspected of having also shot dead in front of his home in California, Marc Angelucci, who also defended “men's rights” in the face of feminists deemed to be increasingly threatening.
According to CNN, Roy Den Hollander was very angry with his colleague for taking over a file he considered “his” fight.
The two lawyers had been members of the same organization, the “National Coalition for Men”, before Mr. Den Hollander was excluded and Mr. Angelucci became vice-president, indicated the president of this organization cited by the channel.
This “coalition”, which presents itself as fighting against discrimination against men, is one of the groups monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, specializing in the study of extremist groups in the United States.
After the murder of the judge's son, the president of the organization, Harry Crouch, said he was “dumbfounded to hear that this senseless act was perpetrated by a self-proclaimed human rights defender” and said condemned “anyone using violence to intimidate or harm people”.
The FBI has not officially put forward any grounds for the attack on Judge Salas's home. But Mr. Den Hollander, 72 years, had criticized the magistrate for the way she had handled a complaint he had filed in 2015, in the file which had been taken up by Roy Den Hollander, according to some media.
He nevertheless dropped this file last summer after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, according to the New York Times .