Officials identified the man who set himself on fire as Max Azzarello, 37, of St. Augustine, Fla. He appeared outside the courthouse on Thursday. Credit : Nate Schweber for The New York Times
A man died after setting himself on fire on Friday afternoon around the Lower Manhattan courthouse where jurors were being chosen for the criminal trial of former President Donald J. Trump.
Onlookers screamed as fire engulfed the man, who had thrown pamphlets in the air before he set himself aflame. He was taken to a hospital and died hours later.
According to the reports from the New York Times, the man, who had lingered outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse earlier this week, doused himself with accelerant at around 1:35 p.m. in Collect Pond Park, across the street from the building.
Onlookers screamed and started to run, and soon, bright orange flames engulfed the man. He threw leaflets espousing anti-government conspiracy theories into the air before setting himself on fire.
People rushed and tried to put out the flames, but the intensity of the heat could be felt from some distance.
After a minute or two, dozens of police officers arrived, running around and climbing over barricades to extinguish the blaze. The man was loaded into an ambulance and rushed to a hospital burn unit. He died on Friday night.
The officials have identified the man as Max Azzarello, 37, of St. Augustine, Fla. Mr Azzarello had appeared outside the courthouse on Thursday, holding a sign displaying the address of a website where the same pamphlets were uploaded. The top post of the website says, “I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial.”
Mr. Azzarello walked around Lower Manhattan earlier in the week, holding a sign on Wednesday critical of New York University at Washington Square Park before moving on Thursday to Collect Pond Park.
At the park on Thursday, Mr. Azzarello had held up various signs and at one point shouted toward a group of reporters gathered there, “Biggest scoop of your life or your money back!” One of his signs claimed that Mr. Trump and President Biden were “about to fascist coup us.”
一名男子在川普受審的法院周圍自焚身亡
週五下午，一名男子在曼哈頓下城法院附近自焚，該法院正在挑選前總統唐納德·J·川普的刑事審判陪審員。
當大火吞噬這名男子時，旁觀者尖叫起來，他在自焚前向空中扔了小冊子。 他被送往醫院，數小時後死亡。
據《紐約時報》報道，這名男子本週早些時候在曼哈頓刑事法院外徘徊，於下午 1 點 35 分左右在身上澆了助燃劑。 位於大樓對面的 Collect Pond 公園。 圍觀者尖叫著開始奔跑，很快，明亮的橙色火焰吞噬了該男子。 他在自焚前向空中投擲支持反政府陰謀論的傳單。
人們爭先恐後地試圖撲滅火焰，但從遠處就能感受到熱度。
一兩分鐘後，數十名警察趕到，他們跑來跑去，翻過路障來撲滅大火。 男子被抬上救護車並送往醫院燒傷科。 他於週五晚上去世。
官員確認這名男子是馬克斯·阿扎里洛(Max Azzarello)，37 歲，來自佛羅裡達州聖奧古斯丁。冊子的網站位址。 該網站的置頂帖子寫道：“我在川普審判外自焚。”
本週早些時候，阿扎里洛在曼哈頓下城散步，週三在華盛頓廣場公園舉著批評紐約大學的標語，然後在週四前往 Collect Pond 公園。
週四在公園裡，阿扎里洛舉起了各種標語，一度對聚集在那裡的一群記者大喊：“你一生中最大的獨家新聞，否則退款！” 他的一個標語聲稱川普先生和拜登總統「即將對我們進行法西斯政變」。
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