Biden pays tribute to New Orleans terror attack victims at makeshift shrine on Bourbon Street

By New York Post (Politics) | Created at 2025-01-06 23:26:31 | Updated at 2025-01-08 04:20:10 1 day ago

President Biden and wife Jill laid flowers at a makeshift shrine on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Monday after the New Year’s Day terror attack there that killed 14 pedestrians.

Biden, 82, paid tribute to the victims ahead of an evening interfaith service at the St. Louis Cathedral near the site of the French Quarter carnage.

President Biden and wife Jill visited Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Monday after last week’s terrorist attack there. AFP via Getty Images

The first couple laid flowers at a makeshift shrine. AFP via Getty Images

The presidential visit comes five days after the horrific truck rampage by Islamic State-inspired Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar.

Jabbar, 42, drove around a police roadblock shortly after 3 a.m. and mowed down victims before being shot dead by police.

Biden will speak Monday night at an interfaith service at New Orleans’ St. Louis Cathedral. AFP via Getty Images

Fourteen people were murdered in the New Year’s Day horror. AFP via Getty Images

Biden embraces Mayor LaToya Cantrell. AP

Biden made the stop ahead of a trip to southern California, where he will tout his Monday executive action to ban offshore drilling for oil and natural gas along most of the country’s coastline, which President-elect Donald Trump says he will un-ban “immediately” after taking office Jan. 20.

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