Young Hitler admirer who envisioned mass murder indicted, jailed – The HuffPost

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JUSTICE – Young man suspected of wanting to carry out a mass murder in his old high school and a mosque on the birthday ofAdolf Hitler was indicted and imprisoned on Friday, a judicial source said on Saturday, October 2, confirming information from Parisian.

This young man, born in 2002 and who lived in Seine-Maritime, was arrested on Tuesday. He was indicted four days later for “criminal terrorist association” and remanded in custody.

Contacted by AFP, his lawyer, Me Malcolm Mouldaia-Mauger, declined to comment at this stage of the procedure.

The young man had been spotted by investigators because he was in contact on a Telegram loop with an 18-year-old woman from Béziers, who was indicted and imprisoned in early April. For its part, it is suspected of having planned an attack against a church in the Hérault.

According to a source familiar with the matter, this boy was fascinated by ultra-violence.

April 20, 2022

In exchanges on several social networks, he evoked his desire to commit a mass killing in his former high school as well as in a mosque near this high school, on April 20, 2022, the day of Adolf Hitler’s birthday, according to a report. source close to the investigation.

During a search, investigators found several weapons, including hunting weapons, ammunition, knives, as well as 20 notebooks in which he lay down his thoughts and referred to Hitler or Anders Breivik, the author of the killing which killed 77 in Norway in 2011.

He claimed to have been the victim of sexual assault as a young child and of harassment during his schooling.

According to The Parisian, during his police custody he mentioned another young man who was also in contact with the young woman from Béziers, affirming that they were “brothers in arms” and were considering a double plan of mass killing.

This second young man was indicted in August for “not denouncing a crime”, but nothing at this stage allows to support a concrete project, told AFP the judicial source.

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