Obama compared the shooting in Orlando with a terrorist attack in San Bernardino

The investigation does not have evidence that the killed 49 people in Orlando Omar Matin received instructions from the “Islamic state” (the organization was recognized as terrorist and prohibited in the Russian Federation). This was announced by US President Barack Obama after a meeting with the director of the FBI James Komi.

“It seems that he was inspired by various extremist information from the Internet,” the US President said.

He added that the investigation has no evidence that the crime was part of some more extensive plan. “In this sense, it seems like we saw in San Bernardino, but we don’t know yet,” Obama added.

The director of the FBI, in turn, said that the first investigation against Matin in 2013 began due to his statements about ties with terrorists. In particular, Matin, in conversations with colleagues, claimed that he was a member of the Shiite Hizball Group - according to Komi, the “sworn enemy of IG”.

The investigation lasted 10 months. In conversations with the FBI agents, Matin explained that he said such things to colleagues because they seemed to be ridiculed and discriminated with due to religious affiliation, Associated Press reports .

• 29-year-old Omar Matin on the night of June 12 shot 49 people in the Pulse gay club in Orlando. Another 53 people were injured. Matin was killed during the assault.
• During the attack (or shortly before the attack), Omar Matin called 911 and swore in the fidelity of IG. The Islamic State took responsibility for the terrorist attack and called Matina "one of the caliphate warriors in America."
• The attack in San Bernardino occurred in December 2015. Then the American Siad Faru and his wife Tashfin Malik, a citizen of Pakistan, shot 14 people. The Islamic State then also took responsibility for the attack. The authorities, in turn, stated that they did not have data on the direct connection of the killers and IS. *