"A historic agreement, which does not erase the pain of that tragic day, but which begins the necessary work to make arms manufacturers responsible".
With these words, US President Joe Biden commented on the compensation agreement found by Remington with the families of the victims of the Sandy Hooks elementary school, Connecticut, committed on December 14, 2012 by 20-year-old Adam Lanza.
The victims of the young man, who was carrying a Remington rifle, were 26 (twenty children and 6 adults) and now the arms manufacturer has agreed to pay nine families about 73 million dollars (initially it had offered 33 million ). .
It is the first time in the United States that an arms manufacturing company has been recognized as responsible for a mass slaughter.
(Unioneonline / lf)
