In custody at the headquarters of the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) in Levallois-Perret since their concurrent arrest in Montauban and Gironde, Tuesday, November 16, the two activists of the ultra-right movement calling for “violent actions “, were referred this Friday, November 19 afternoon to the Paris court.
After nearly four days in police custody at the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) in Levallois-Perret, Dominique D., a municipal agent from the city of Montauban radicalized in the ultra-right movement, was referred to the Paris judicial court for indictment by the anti-terrorism judge Stanislas Sandraps, this Friday, November 19, afternoon.
Since October, this 46-year-old Montalbanese gardener has been the target of a preliminary investigation opened by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) in Paris for “terrorist criminal association” and “direct provocation by an online means of communication to an act of terrorism” .
At the Paris judicial court, the radicalized Montalbanese gardener is referred this Friday afternoon for his indictment
Hanging scene
Internal intelligence cybercrime experts have it on their radar since it set up a channel on the encrypted Telegram messaging system, called “To Hell”. Created last January and closed since, this group would have brought together up to a hundred people exchanging ultra-violent racist and anti-Semitic content. Dominique D., who would have been the administrator, publishes content including video montages of his own.
In one of them which ends with the hanging of a young African woman, the experts of the DGSI concluded that it was a real scene. More and more “trash” content to which the gardener would have become addicted, like violent video games of which he is a follower.
A terrorist “manifesto”
What would have however decided the French intelligence services to immediately arrest the two men, it is the publication of a terrorist manual, qualified by the investigators of true “manifesto” of Dominique D. to take violent action as well as the purchase of weapons on the wise advice of Didier B. Living in Gironde and knowledgeable hunter, this sixty-year-old, in contrast to the gardener from Tarn-et-Garonnais, is far from having a clean criminal record.
During these tens of hours of custody hearing, the forty-something was questioned at length by DGSI agents on this “manifesto” having disturbing similarities with the one published in March 2019 by Brandon tarrant, the far-right Australian terrorist who coldly shot and killed 51 people and wounded 49 others in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. “He himself compiled chapters in which he explains how to behave in society, to dress to go unnoticed so as not to be spotted by the intelligence services, indicates a source close to the file. also classifications of weapons where he explains how to buy them at low cost and without declaring them to the authorities “. A dozen weapons including Kalashnikovs, and also “black powder” which can be used “to carry out explosives” were found in his home during the searches.
Residing not far from the future great mosque of Montauban (Chemin de Matras), Dominique D. would not have failed to be questioned on this point by the investigators. This one would have confirmed, without going into detail, not to be satisfied with the construction of this religious building fearing that it does not “become a nest of fundamentalists”, assures the same source.
Also questioned about the possession of this stockpile of weapons, the gardener, whom we had revealed to be a collector of weapons and a shooting enthusiast, said “that it is in order to protect oneself if one had to. attack”. The respondent “lives in fear of an outbreak of an imminent civil war between communities, he is ready to defend himself and respond if necessary”, certifies the same source.
Me Severine Lheureux: “Her fascination with ultra violence never made her want to incite violent acts and even less terrorists”
Me Sévérine Lheureux
At the end of the custody of her client that she has been assisting since Tuesday and of her defense before the national anti-terrorism prosecution, Me Sévérine Lheureux agreed to answer our questions. “My client is as one can imagine very anxious at the idea of being now, for the first time in his life, confronted with an examining magistrate, a fortiori because of the risk of a request for provisional detention which could be formed at the end of his indictment “, indicates the lawyer Montalbanaise. She confirms that her client “for the sake of perfect cooperation acknowledges having posted the alleged publications but not criminal intent.”
Regarding the content of calls to violence published on the encrypted channel of Dominique D., Me Lheureux ensures that: “the fascination (of his client) for ultra violence has never made him want to incite violent acts and even less terrorists. “
Now foreseeing the inevitable indictment of her client within the framework of a criminal procedure of the national anti-terrorism prosecution, the lawyer prepares her defense by evoking the “fragile” personality of this one. “We are going to ask for a psychiatric expertise to be carried out to demonstrate his absence of dangerousness and his sincere dismay in the face of a situation that is beyond him.”