Three people died and almost twenty were injured after a car hit a group of people demonstrating against the supremacist march that took place this Saturday in the city of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Sources from the University of Virginia Medical Center confirmed that one person had died after the accident and 19 others were receiving treatment for their injuries. Later, the director of the municipality, Maurice Jones, confirmed that there were three fatal cases after the incident.
According to EFE, US President Donald Trump condemned the "violent" events that occurred in Charlottesville, headquarters of the University of Virginia and located more than 300 kilometers southwest of Washington.
"We condemn in the strongest terms this atrocious display of bigotry, racism and violence on multiple sides," Trump said in a brief statement to the press from Bedminster, New Jersey, where he is spending his summer vacation.
The event occurred around 1:00 p.m., shortly after the governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, declared a state of emergency in the city due to clashes between participants of the supremacist march and opponents.
Under the slogan "Unite the Right," the march protested the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who led Southern forces during the American Civil War.
The symbology of the confederacy is culturally associated in the US with the defense of slavery, and therefore, with anti-racist values.
According to the agency, the demonstration has been described as "the largest hate meeting in decades in the United States," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that investigates those who foment racial violence.
According to police reports, the perpetrator of the incident has already been arrested by the authorities.
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