米議事堂襲撃事件で警官が射殺の女性、遺族に７億円超支払いへ トランプ政権

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】米紙ワシントン・ポストが１９日に報じたところによると、トランプ政権は２０２１年１月の連邦議会議事堂襲撃事件で警察官に射殺された女性の遺族に対し、５００万ドル（約７億２０００万円）近くを支払うことで合意した。（写真は２０２１年１月６日、米首都ワシントンの連邦議会議事堂で警察と衝突するドナルド・トランプ大統領〈当時〉の支持者たち）
　死亡した女性は、アシュリ・バビットさん（当時３５）。２０２０年大統領選の結果を覆そうとする、ドナルド・トランプ大統領の支持者が暴徒化し、議会を襲撃した際、下院議長ロビーに通じる窓を登ろうとして射殺された。
　遺族は昨年、バビットさんの死は不法死亡に当たるとして、３０００万ドル（約４３億円）の損害賠償請求訴訟を起こした。公判も予定されていたが、２０２４年大統領選でトランプ氏が勝利した後、司法省は方針を転換し、和解交渉に入った。
　ワシントン・ポストは情報筋２人の話として、政府が遺族に５００万ドル近くを支払うことで和解が成立したと報じている。
　バビットさんを撃った警察官に不正行為はなかったとされたが、トランプ氏は射殺は不当であり、バビットさんは「無実」だったと繰り返し主張している。トランプ氏支持者の間では、バビットさんは「殉教者」とされている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/05/20-17:45）

The Trump administration has agreed to pay nearly $5 million to the family of a woman shot dead by a police officer during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
Ashli Babbitt, 35, was shot as she tried to climb through a window leading to the House Speaker's lobby during the assault on Congress by a mob of Donald Trump supporters seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Babbitt's estate filed a wrongful death suit last year seeking $30 million.
The case had been scheduled to go on trial but the US Justice Department reversed course after Trump won the November 2024 election and entered into settlement talks.
The Post, citing two people familiar with the matter, said a settlement had been reached under which the government would pay nearly $5 million to Babbitt's family.
The Capitol police officer who shot Babbitt was cleared of any wrongdoing but Trump has repeatedly claimed the shooting was unwarranted and she was an innocent woman.
Babbitt has been cast as a martyr by Trump supporters and her estate was represented in the wrongful death suit by the conservative group Judicial Watch.
Trump signed pardons on his first day in office for more than 1,500 participants in the attack on the Capitol by supporters seeking to block certification of Democrat Joe Biden's election victory.
The Capitol assault, which left more than 140 police officers injured, followed a fiery speech by then-president Trump to tens of thousands of his supporters near the White House in which he repeated his false claims that he won the 2020 race.
He then encouraged the crowd to march on Congress.