The US authorities announced yesterday Friday that it had been prevented “terrorist” action against Jews of New York.

The attack was planned to be carried out on October 7 in the name of the jihadist group Islamic State (IK) by a Pakistani national, a citizen of Canada, who has been arrested.

The young man, 20, named “Muhammad Shahzeb Khan” and using the alias “Sazeb Jadun” tried to enter the US territory “to commit mass slaughter in Jewish Center of New York” reveals a press release released by the Department of Justice.

“The accused was allegedly planning a terrorist attack on her October 7th this year with the express goal of slaughtering, in the name of IS, as many Jews as possible,” said US Attorney General Merrick Garland, according to the press release.

According to FBI Director Christopher Wray, the young Pakistani was “determined to kill Jews here in the US, almost a year after the horrific attack by Hamas against Israel” on October 7, 2023.

According to the investigation by the FBI and the New York federal prosecutor’s office, Hahn, a resident of Canada, attempted to travel to New York where he “intended to commit automatic and semi-automatic weapons mass slaughter in support of IS against Jewish center in Brooklyn“, one of the five boroughs of the multicultural metropolis of the USA, the country where most Jews live in the world after Israel, about six million.

The suspect “he was arrested on Sept. 4 in Canada at the request of federal prosecutors” in Manhattan, according to the Justice Department statement.

The young man had been under surveillance since last November, in particular because of his messages on social networking sites, his encrypted communications and the “distribution of IS video and written propaganda”, according to the US Department of Justice.

Minister Garland said he was “deeply grateful to (his) Canadian partners for acting swiftly to bring the accused into custody”.