The police in New York were put on high alert before the appearance on Tuesday before the court of former US President Donald Trump, accused in the case of irregular payments to a porn star, according to AFP.

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The powerful and overstretched New York Police Department (NYPD), which has 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilians, has ordered all of its officers and agents off the streets for a week starting Friday, police sources told NBC television.

A spokesman for the New York City Police Department, a city with a history of violent incidents, responded by email to Agence France-Presse that “officers have been put on alert and the department is ready to intervene if necessary and ensure that everyone can peacefully exercise their rights.”

There are enough demonstrators for and against Trump in Manhattan (the commercial, financial and cultural center of the city). Several of the latter set up in front of the former president’s Trump Tower on iconic 5th Avenue and unfurled a banner reading “Stop Trump.”

The former president was shocked by the historic indictment handed down by a New York grand jury Thursday night, but plans to fight hard to have the charges dismissed by prosecutor Alvin Bragg, according to his attorney, Joseph Tacopina.

Donald Trump, who lives in Florida, is scheduled to appear in a New York court on Tuesday to be formally charged with paying $130,000 in late 2016 and later to porn actress Stormy Daniels to buy silence in the context of that year’s election. .

As EFE reports with reference to CNN, Donald Trump will travel from Miami to New York on Monday to appear before a judge on Tuesday afternoon. The hearing will take place at 2.15pm local time and because of the huge anticipation, the court canceled other less important hearings to restrict pedestrian traffic in the building for safety reasons.

Various media outlets have said that the list of charges that the judge will hand him – and which have not yet been made public – number more than thirty, all of which are related to the payment of $130,000 to Daniels and the possible concealment of that amount as an election. costs.

Trump supporters plan to demonstrate outside the courthouse during his speech on Tuesday.