Le Parisien revealed exclusively, Saturday, October 2, 2021, that a 19-year-old, suspected of wanting to commit a mass killing, was arrested by the DGSI.
By monitoring a radicalized 18-year-old girl who was developing a plan to attack a church in the Hérault, and who was imprisoned last April, the DGSI discovered another fanatic on the Telegram application. The duo discussed the use of weapons and the making of a homemade bomb, which aroused the curiosity of specialists in the fight against terrorism. With amazement, the investigators then discovered a particular profile: a 19-year-old man, out of school, unemployed, fond of ultra-violence, passionate about Nazism and admirer of the Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik who killed 77 people in Oslo and on the island of Utoya in 2011. He planned to commit a massacre in his old high school and in a mosque, around which he had already carried out scouting according to The Parisian. The date of the drama was scheduled for April 20, the day of the birth of Adolf Hitler and the shooting of Columbine, in the second round of the presidential election.
During the search of his home on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, DGSI agents seized around twenty knives, a hunting rifle, a 22 long rifle equipped with a telescopic sight. as well as a compressed air gun. Twenty notebooks with the inscription “Mein Kampf” were found.
He wanted to realize his “Work”
In his notebooks, the young man evoked his future carnage, which he would nickname “The Work“in the face of intelligence sleuths, or even his infatuation with the Führer.”I wanna do worse than Columbine“, he wrote in reference to the massacre at the Columbine high school in Colorado. In 1999, two 18-year-old students killed 12 students and a teacher there before committing suicide. After being indicted, the neo-Nazi was imprisoned for “criminal terrorist association” and remanded in custody. He also claimed to be a victim of bullying at school for several years and revealed that he was sexually abused as a child.