(JTA) — The murder of a Jewish businessman in Uruguay marks the arrival of Islamist terrorism from the Middle East to Latin America, a Jewish group said. “The murderer’s cry of ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is Great) points to the transplantation of Islamist terrorism from the Middle East to Latin America,” Shimon Samuels, the director of international relations for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said in a letter to Uruguay’s president, Tabare Vazquez. Samuels also wrote: “From the knife to the bullet to the bomb is the terrorist route exposed by the assassinated AMIA Prosecutor, Alberto Nisman.” He added that “Gaza has no place in Uruguay.”

David Fremd, 55, was murdered in the small town of Paysandu on March 8. His alleged killer, an Uruguayan named Carlos Omar Peralta Lopez, 35, is under arrest. Lopez, who adopted the Islamic name of Abdullah Omar, told authorities the day after the murder, “I killed a Jew following Allah’s order,” according to El Observador newspaper.