He was planning to attack a mosque, or his old high school. A 19-year-old admirer of Adolf Hitler was arrested Tuesday by the DGSI and indicted on Friday, one by an anti-terrorism judge, tells 20 minutes a judicial source, confirming information from Parisian. He was remanded in custody. Originally from Le Havre, in Seine-Maritime, he is suspected of having wanted to commit a mass killing on April 20, 2022, the birthday of the German dictator.
During the search of his home, investigators discovered several weapons: knives and three firearms that belong to his father-in-law. According to the Parisian, they also got their hands on writings in which the young neo-Nazi, who presents himself as “a white and nationalist fighter”, “a psychopath”, evokes his hatred of “black, Jewish and Arab” men, “all scum “. He details his project: “I want to do worse than Columbine”, he says, in reference to the shooting which left fifteen dead in an American high school in April 1999.
Links with a radicalized Islamist
The envisaged targets were not chosen at random. Without professional activity since obtaining a vocational baccalaureate, he explains that for several years he suffered harassment from his classmates. In police custody, he also explained to investigators that “the state is not doing enough to fight against radical Islamism”, that Western culture is threatened by “the great replacement”, and that “the delinquency of foreigners is only increasing ”, indicates for his part BFM TV.
Paradoxically, he exchanged on the encrypted Telegram messaging with a young woman from Béziers (Hérault). However, this radicalized Islamist had been followed for several weeks by the police officers of the DGSI. She also harassed at school, she is suspected of having wanted to commit an attack in a church and a high school. Aged 18, she was arrested and indicted last April for “criminal terrorist association”.