Man sets himself on fire close to court where Donald Trump is on trial

Former president Donald Trump arrives outside the courtroom for his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in Manhattan. Photograph: Maansi Srivastava/The New York TimesA man set himself on fire Friday afternoon near the lower Manhattan courthouse where jurors were being chosen for the criminal trial of former president

City officials identified the man as Max Azzarello, 37, of St Augustine, Florida. Azzarello had appeared outside the courthouse 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”.

In an interview that day, he said his critical views of the American government were shaped by his research into Peter Thiel, the technology billionaire and political provocateur who is a big campaign donor, and into cryptocurrency. A man at a Brooklyn address associated with a possible relative of Azzarello’s declined to comment Thursday.

About a year later, he posted a photo of what appeared to be his COVID-19 vaccination card – defaced with the words “Super Ponzi” and the symbol for bitcoin.

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