Victims of terrorist Sayfullo Saipov faced him down in court ahead of his sentencing — blasting him as a “waste of space,” “garbage” and a “monster.”
faced him down in court ahead of his sentencing to life in prison on Wednesday — blasting him as a “waste of space,” “garbage” and a “monster.”
Missio told the courtroom about how she has been “subsumed with grief” since her son’s death and that the terror Nicholas must have felt in his last moments “will torment me forever.” Her son’s birthday is on Friday and he would have been 29.19 victims spoke in court addressing terrorist Sayfullo Saipov.“No punishment will ever compare to the pain and suffering he has inflicted on me and the other families,” Missio said, adding that Saipov’s acts “completely destroyed my life.
The wife of Argentinian victim Ariel Erlij — Gabriela Pereya — took the witness stand to deliver a brief, pointed message, through a translator, first telling the judge she was ashamed of the US justice system and then telling Saipov that if he wanted his god to accept and love him he should “go kill” himself.
The daughter told Saipov she will continue to ask herself for her “entire life” why he carried out the horrific rampage and said that now that justice has been carried out she, her family and her late dad will have peace.Saipov carried out the attack in the name of ISIS.Many of the victims echoed that they will be haunted by the question of why Saipov carried out the ISIS-inspired attack that day killing their loved ones or maiming them.
Vera Dargoltz, the widow of Argentinian victim Hernan Ferrucci, speaking through a translator called Saipov “the lowest form of life,” and compared him to a “cockroach.”
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