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US: A man was arrested for setting fire to papers inside the New York City courthouse where ex US President Donald Trump’s civil business fraud trial is pending, prompting a brief evacuation of the building. Nearly a half-dozen people suffered minor injuries in this incident.
After receiving information about this incident, Firefighters reached at the New York State Supreme Court Building in lower Manhattan shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday to respond to an alarm on the building’s fourth floor. The former president was not in the building on Wednesday.
Court spokesman Al Baker said that a man was taken into custody after setting documents on fire and then extinguishing them with a fire extinguisher. He did not give further details, but said that the incident is under investigation.
The fire occurred hours after the conclusion of testimony in Trump’s civil fraud trial, which has been ongoing for nearly three months, on the third floor of the building. Among those ousted was Judge Arthur Engoron, who had presided over the trial.
