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An investigation was opened after the report of a “disturbing message which could correspond to an apology for a crime”. The Girondin was placed in police custody.
Le Figaro Bordeaux
He had dark plans in mind. This Tuesday, a 26-year-old man was arrested for apologizing for a crime in Eysines (Gironde), in the Bordeaux metropolis, according to information from CNEWS confirmed by Le Figaro. He is suspected of having planned to carry out a mass killing.
An investigation was opened on May 17 following a report on the Pharos platform, a website created by the government to report illegal online content and behavior, specifies the public prosecutor of Bordeaux, Frédérique Porterie. The suspect was the author of a “disturbing message that may correspond to an apology for crime and refers to the mass killing occurred in California on May 23, 2014 ».
“An interest in the incel movement”
The Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office immediately contacted the national police, who were able to identify the author of this message and place him in police custody. Alex G. has no criminal record but the first investigations highlight “an individual’s interest in the incel movement”, specifies the prosecutor. Incel is the contraction of “involuntary celibate”that is to say “involuntary single”a movement whose members believe in particular that sexual relations are due to them.
During the search of his home, a rubber revolver was fired, several cell phones and a computer were seized. While in police custody, “the person concerned admitted to having considered committing the act, without a specific location, following an attack suffered”, specifies the Bordeaux court. Despite the information from CNEWS and the comments of Gérald Darmanin on “during the passing of the Olympic torch relay in Bordeaux” this Thursday, May 23, “no reference to the Olympic flame was not mentioned”specifies Frédérique Porterie, contradicting the Minister of the Interior.
“According to those close to him, he is very psychologically fragile. However, the designated psychiatric expert did not reveal any particular disorder., adds Frédérique Porterie. A judicial investigation was requested by the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office, for apologizing for crime and criminal association, with requisitions for a committal warrant against the person concerned.